Thematic Bible: Extremity of examples of
Thematic Bible
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
Man » Extremity of examples of » Glory of
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The father of the demoniac
One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
Man » Extremity of examples of » The disciples in the storm
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,
Man » Extremity of examples of » The sick woman
A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
Man » Extremity of examples of » The psalmist
Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Paul and his companions on the sea
When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Peter in prison
The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
Man » Extremity of examples of » The disciples facing a hungry multitude
"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"