Thematic Bible: Uncertainty of physical
Thematic Bible
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
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.
My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.
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?
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
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.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a shadow
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.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a flying shuttle
My days, are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
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.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a weaver's web
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.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a vanishing vapour
Men who are not versed in the morrow - of what sort your life will be ; for ye are, a vapour - for a little, appearing, then, just disappearing!