2 Samuel 19:34

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³⁴But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

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James 4:14

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¹⁴Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.^(A)

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1 Corinthians 7:29

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²⁹What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short.^(A) From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

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Psalm 39:5-6

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⁵You have made my days^(A) a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,^(B)
even those who seem secure.^[a]

⁶“Surely everyone goes around^(C) like a mere phantom;^(D)
in vain they rush about,^(E) heaping up wealth^(F)
without knowing whose it will finally be.^(G)

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Footnotes

Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.

Job 14:14

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¹⁴If someone dies, will they live again?
All the days of my hard service^(A)
I will wait for my renewal^[a]^(B) to come.

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Job 14:14 Or release

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Genesis 47:8-9

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⁸Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

⁹And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.^(A) My years have been few and difficult,^(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.^(C)”

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