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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? Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeTravailWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureUnder The SunBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertainty

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. Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLast ThingsUniversality Of DeathMediatorMortalityHow Death Is InevitableReinstating Peopleextraterrestrials

“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.
Verse ConceptsCraftsmenLife, HumanPhysical LifeSpinning And WeavingPeople EndedLife Cut ShortLife Being Temporary

“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHope, Nature OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceSheolNot Praising GodState Of The DeadDeath Of Loved OneCelebrationLoss Of A Loved One

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.” Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems


Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.
Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLike A Dreamawakeningimage

“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.
Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.
Verse ConceptsSighingPhysical LifePassing AwayPeople EndedDeathFinishing Strong


You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.
Verse ConceptsGrassPunishment, Nature OfGod KillingGod KillsNatural DisastersRenewal

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

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.
Verse ConceptsLife, HumanPhysical LifeLife, Brevity OfFast RunnersNothing GoodLife Cut Short

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

Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing


“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.
Verse ConceptsMan A Mere Breathbreath