Ecclesiastes 3:19
New King James Version
19 (A)For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.
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Psalm 49:12
New King James Version
12 Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not [a]remain;
He is like the beasts that perish.
Footnotes
- Psalm 49:12 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. understand (cf. v. 20)
Ecclesiastes 2:20-23
New King James Version
20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his [a]heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 (A)For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his days are (B)sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:21 Lit. portion
Psalm 49:20
New King James Version
20 A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
(A)Is like the beasts that perish.
Job 14:10-12
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10 But man dies and [a]is laid away;
Indeed he [b]breathes his last
And where is (A)he?
11 As water disappears from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dries up,
12 So man lies down and does not rise.
(B)Till the heavens are no more,
They will not awake
Nor be roused from their sleep.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
New King James Version
16 For there is (A)no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,
Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come.
And how does a wise man die?
As the fool!
Ecclesiastes 2:14
New King James Version
14 (A)The wise man’s eyes are in his head,
But the fool walks in darkness.
Yet I myself perceived
That (B)the same event happens to them all.
Psalm 104:29
New King James Version
29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;
(A)You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Psalm 92:6-7
New King James Version
6 (A)A senseless man does not know,
Nor does a fool understand this.
7 When (B)the wicked [a]spring up like grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be destroyed forever.
Footnotes
- Psalm 92:7 sprout
Psalm 89:47-48
New King James Version
47 Remember how short my time (A)is;
For what (B)futility have You created all the children of men?
48 What man can live and not [a]see (C)death?
Can he deliver his life from the power of [b]the grave? Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 89:48 experience death
- Psalm 89:48 Or Sheol
Psalm 39:5-6
New King James Version
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but (A)vapor. Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they [a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing
2 Samuel 14:14
New King James Version
14 For we (A)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not (B)take away a life; but He (C)devises means, so that His banished ones are not [a]expelled from Him.
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- 2 Samuel 14:14 cast out
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