Thematic Bible: Uncertainty of physical
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
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Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
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For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
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My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
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For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
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My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a shadow
for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a flying shuttle
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
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(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a weaver's web
My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
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Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like a vanishing vapour
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
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