Thematic Bible: Uncertainty of physical
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
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Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
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For all our days turned away in thy wrath: we finished our years as a meditation
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My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
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For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
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My days were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a shadow
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a flying shuttle
My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.
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(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a weaver's web
Mine age removed, and was carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I rolled together as a weaver my life: from the thread he will cut me off: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a vanishing vapour
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)
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