Thematic Bible: Uncertainty of physical
Thematic Bible
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.
Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?
For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.
Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a shadow
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no other hope.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope.
for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a weaver's web
My dwelling place has been moved and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent; he has cut off my life like a weaver: he has cut me off with sickness: between the day and the night thou shalt consume me.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a vanishing vapour
and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.