Thematic Bible: Uncertainty of physical
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.
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Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
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Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.
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My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
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For no one knows what is best for a person during his life -- during the few days of his fleeting life -- for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
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"My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a shadow
For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a weaver's web
My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a vanishing vapour
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
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