Job 9:25
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25 “My days are swifter than a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
Job 7:6-7
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7 “Remember that my life is a breath;
my eye will never again see good.(B)
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- 7.6 Or as the thread runs out
James 4:14
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14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)
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Psalm 90:9-10
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9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end[a] like a sigh.(A)
10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[b] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(B)
Psalm 89:47
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- 89.47 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 39:11
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11 “You chastise mortals
in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(A)
Psalm 39:5
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5 You have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah(A)
Esther 8:14
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14 So the couriers, mounted on their royal steeds, hurried out, urged by the king’s command. The decree was issued in the citadel of Susa.
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