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Thematic Bible



For who knoweth what is good for a man throughout his life, for the number of the days of his life of vanity, seeing he will make them, like a shadow, - for who can tell a man, what shall be after him, under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeTravailWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureUnder The SunBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertainty

For, when we, die, we become as water poured on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, - therefore doth God not take away the life, but deviseth plans so as not to thrust out from him, a fugitive. Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLast ThingsUniversality Of DeathMediatorMortalityHow Death Is InevitableReinstating Peopleextraterrestrials

My dwelling, hath been broken up. And is stripped from me, like a shepherds tent, - I have roiled up - as a weaver - my life From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, I said - Thou wilt finish me. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenLife, HumanPhysical LifeSpinning And WeavingPeople EndedLife Cut ShortLife Being Temporary

For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHope, Nature OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceSheolNot Praising GodState Of The DeadDeath Of Loved OneCelebrationLoss Of A Loved One

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings. Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems


As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise. Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLike A Dreamawakeningimage

Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah. Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, - We end our years like a sigh. Verse ConceptsSighingPhysical LifePassing AwayPeople EndedDeathFinishing Strong


Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, they are like grass that shooteth up, Verse ConceptsGrassPunishment, Nature OfGod KillingGod KillsNatural DisastersRenewal

They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food. Verse ConceptsHuntingEaglesPapyrusShipsBoats

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good. Verse ConceptsLife, HumanPhysical LifeLife, Brevity OfFast RunnersNothing GoodLife Cut Short

They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food. Verse ConceptsHuntingEaglesPapyrusShipsBoats

As a flower, he cometh forth - and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing


Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing: Verse ConceptsMan A Mere Breathbreath