Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Balances » Figurative
"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!
let my righteousness be weighed in honest scales, and God will make known my integrity.
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
"Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
TEKEL: You've been weighed on the scales and you don't measure up.
When the lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Go!" I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a scale in his hand.
Emptiness » Emptiness or vanity of the worldly life (ps 3911; 629)
Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.
I told myself, "I will test you with pleasure, so enjoy yourself." But this was pointless.
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
There was no end to all of his subjects or to all of the people who had come before them. But those who come along afterward will not be happy with him. This is also pointless and a chasing after wind.
Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.
false Confidence » In man
A king is not saved by a large army; a mighty soldier is not delivered by his great strength.
When Ephraim examined his illness and Judah his injury, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and inquired of the great king; but he could not cure you nor heal your injury.
"Ephraim is also like a silly dove, lacking sense: They call out to Egypt, and turn toward Assyria.
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
"Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?"
This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind, who makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
It is better to take shelter in the LORD than to trust in people.
Do not look to nobles, nor to mere human beings who cannot save. When they stop breathing, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans evaporate!
Vanity » Emptiness of the worldly life
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude
Vanity » Every state of man is
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.