Thematic Bible: Is compared to
Thematic Bible
natural Life » Is compared to » A shadow
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as 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 doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
natural Life » Is compared to » A thread cut by the weaver
Mine 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 with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
natural Life » Is compared to » A shepherd's tent removed
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
natural Life » Is compared to » A pilgrimage
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an 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 withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
natural Life » Is compared to » A dream
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
natural Life » Is compared to » A hand-breadth
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: 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 thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
natural Life » Is compared to » A vapor
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
natural Life » Is compared to » A sleep
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift post
Now my days are swifter than a post: 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 hasteth to the prey.
natural Life » Is compared to » A flower
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
natural Life » Is compared to » A weaver's shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.