Thematic Bible: Uncertainty of physical


Thematic Bible



Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, - We end our years like a sigh.


For who knoweth what is good for a man throughout his life, for the number of the days of his life of vanity, seeing he will make them, like a shadow, - for who can tell a man, what shall be after him, under the sun?


As a flower, he cometh forth - and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.


for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.



For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:


And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.


My dwelling, hath been broken up. And is stripped from me, like a shepherds tent, - I have roiled up - as a weaver - my life From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, I said - Thou wilt finish me.