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Thematic Bible



For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeTravailWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureUnder The SunBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertainty

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast. Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLast ThingsUniversality Of DeathMediatorMortalityHow Death Is InevitableReinstating Peopleextraterrestrials

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end; Verse ConceptsCraftsmenLife, HumanPhysical LifeSpinning And WeavingPeople EndedLife Cut ShortLife Being Temporary

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not 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

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning." Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems


Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms. Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLike A Dreamawakeningimage

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. Verse ConceptsSighingPhysical LifePassing AwayPeople EndedDeathFinishing Strong


You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: Verse ConceptsGrassPunishment, Nature OfGod KillingGod KillsNatural DisastersRenewal

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey. Verse ConceptsHuntingEaglesPapyrusShipsBoats

"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 go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey. Verse ConceptsHuntingEaglesPapyrusShipsBoats

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing


"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. Verse ConceptsMan A Mere Breathbreath

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