2 Samuel 19:34
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34 But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
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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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1 Corinthians 7:29
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29 I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,(A)
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Psalm 39:5-6
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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)
6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(B)
Job 14:14
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14 If mortals die, will they live again?
All the days of my service I would wait
until my release should come.(A)
Genesis 47:8-9
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8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the years of your life?”(A) 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”
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