Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
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but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.
Taking an oath, David again said, "Your father is very much aware of the fact that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 'Don't let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.' But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!"
My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.
He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry 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,
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but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.
Taking an oath, David again said, "Your father is very much aware of the fact that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 'Don't let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.' But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!"
My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.
He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry 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,