Thematic Bible: Is compared to


Thematic Bible



For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?


For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.


“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.


“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.


So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”




Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.


“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.


For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.




You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.


“They slip by like reed boats,
Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.


“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.


“They slip by like reed boats,
Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.


Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.




“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.