Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Balances » Figurative
If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
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let God weigh me on honest scales and he will know that I am blameless.
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Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
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TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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When he opened the third seal I heard the third beast say: Come! I saw a black horse; and he who sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.
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Emptiness » Emptiness or vanity of the worldly life (ps 3911; 629)
This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).
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I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness. This also is vanity.
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Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
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With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
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Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them. Those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.
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false Confidence » In man
A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
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When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
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Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.
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Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
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Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
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This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
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It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
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Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).
Vanity » Emptiness of the worldly life
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
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With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
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Vanity » Every state of man is
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
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