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death » Miscellaneous subjects » Fleeing as a shadow
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
death » Miscellaneous subjects » Being cut down
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
natural Death » Regard, as at hand
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
natural Death » Described as » Fleeing as a shadow
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
natural Death » Described as » Being cut down
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Flowers » Illustrative of » Shortness of man's life
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
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.
Man » The days of man
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place there shall know it no more.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not. And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? read more.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Man » Man being born into trouble
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Select readings » The brevity of life
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not. And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? read more.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground; Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant. But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground; Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant. But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?
Sin » Mankind being sinful in nature
Yea, you heard not; yea, you knew not; yea, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not. And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you? read more.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. read more.
Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David.] Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Yea, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
And you has he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins: In which in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our behavior in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Time » Brevity of » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
Trouble » Who is born into trouble
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.