Psalm 39:5-7
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II
5 Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days,
that I may learn how frail I am.
6 To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days;
indeed, my life is as nothing before you.
Every man is but a breath.(A)
Selah
III
7 Man goes about as a mere phantom;
they hurry about, although in vain;
he heaps up stores without knowing for whom.
Psalm 62:10
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III
10 Mortals are a mere breath,
the sons of man but an illusion;(A)
On a balance they rise;[a]
together they weigh nothing.
Footnotes
- 62:10 On a balance they rise: precious objects were weighed by balancing two pans suspended from a beam. The lighter pan rises.
Psalm 102:24-25
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III
24 He has shattered my strength in mid-course,
has cut short my days.
25 I plead, O my God,
do not take me in the midst of my days.[a](A)
Your years last through all generations.
Psalm 144:4
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Genesis 6:3
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3 Then the Lord said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years.
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Job 7:6
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle;
they come to an end without hope.
Job 7:16
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16 I waste away: I will not live forever;(A)
let me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 14:5
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5 Since his days are determined—
you know the number of his months;
you have fixed the limit which he cannot pass—
Proverbs 10:27
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27 Fear of the Lord prolongs life,
but the years of the wicked are cut short.(A)
Ecclesiastes 6:12
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12 (A)For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?(B)
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Wisdom 2:5
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5 For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow;
and our dying cannot be deferred
because it is fixed with a seal; and no one returns.(A)
Ben Sira 18:8
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8 What are mortals? What are they worth?
What is good in them, and what is evil?
Isaiah 65:20
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20 No longer shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime;
One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.(A)
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