Thematic Bible: Is compared to
Thematic Bible
natural Life » Is compared to » A shadow
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
natural Life » Is compared to » Water spilt on the ground
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished one be not expelled from him.
natural Life » Is compared to » A thread cut by the weaver
My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
natural Life » Is compared to » A shepherd's tent removed
For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.
natural Life » Is compared to » A pilgrimage
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
natural Life » Is compared to » Grass
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
natural Life » Is compared to » A dream
As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.
natural Life » Is compared to » A hand-breadth
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
natural Life » Is compared to » A tale told
For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
natural Life » Is compared to » A vapor
Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
natural Life » Is compared to » A sleep
You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift post
Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
natural Life » Is compared to » A flower
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
natural Life » Is compared to » A weaver's shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.