Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Body » Frailty of
But man cannot continue in [his] pomp. He is like the beasts [that] perish.
Then David {took an oath} again and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.' But {as Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, surely [there is] merely a step between me and death!"
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
for he remembered that they [were] flesh, a passing wind that does not return.
For he knows our frame. He remembers that we [are] dust.
As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
Breath » Of life
when Yahweh God formed the man [of] dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: "Look! I [am] bringing into you breath, and you will live!
And [now] you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that [do] not see and [do] not hear and [do] not know, but the God {who holds your life in his hand} and all of your ways {come from him}, you have not honored.
nor is he served by human hands [as if he] needed anything, [because] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
Everything in whose nostrils [was] {the breath of life}, among all that [was] on dry land, died.
false Confidence » In man
The king [is] not saved by [the] greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by [the] greatness of strength.
And [when] Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.
Ephraim was like a dove, silly, {without sense}; they call [to] Egypt, they go [to] Assyria.
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance. His breath departs; he returns to his plot; on that day his plans perish.
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
But man cannot continue in [his] pomp. He is like the beasts [that] perish.
Then David {took an oath} again and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.' But {as Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, surely [there is] merely a step between me and death!"
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
for he remembered that they [were] flesh, a passing wind that does not return.
For he knows our frame. He remembers that we [are] dust.
As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
Man » Redemption of » Trust in
Who go to go down [to] Egypt, but they do not ask [of] my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.
Ah! Those who go down [to] Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.
And [when] Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [if] a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such [is] Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him.
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
And the Egyptians [are] human and not God, and their horses [are] flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and [the] helper will stumble, and [the] one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust princes.
Man » No trust to be placed in
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.
FALSE » Trusts » Trust in man, warnings concerning
Who go to go down [to] Egypt, but they do not ask [of] my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.
Ah! Those who go down [to] Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.
And [when] Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [if] a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such [is] Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him.
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
And the Egyptians [are] human and not God, and their horses [are] flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and [the] helper will stumble, and [the] one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust princes.