Thematic Bible: Of man


Thematic Bible








For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been [anything] as this great thing is, or has been he

For thou have made him but little lower than [heavenly] agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.


and have forgotten LORD thy maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? And where is the fury




I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,

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 thereof shall know it no more.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass.

Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up. In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb. As the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.




Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.


I said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.

How much therefore a man is superior to a sheep. So then it is permitted to do good on the Sabbath.


And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man.

And the multitudes who saw what Paul did, lifted up their voice, speaking Lycaonian, The gods came down to us, having become like men.

But they expected he was going to swell up, or suddenly fall down dead, but when they were long expecting, and seeing nothing amiss happening to him, thinking differently, they declared him to be a god.