Ecclesiastes 3:19
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19 For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.(A)
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Psalm 49:12
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12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(A)
Psalm 49:20
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20 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(A)
Job 14:10-12
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
11 As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,(B)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
or be roused out of their sleep.(C)
Ecclesiastes 2:20-23
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20 So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun,(A) 21 because sometimes one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by another who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.(B) 22 What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?(C) 23 For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.(D)
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
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16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
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14 The wise have eyes in their head,
but fools walk in darkness.
Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.(A)
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Psalm 104:29
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29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.(A)
Psalm 92:6-7
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6 The dullard cannot know;
the stupid cannot understand this:
7 though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,(A)
Psalm 89:47-48
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47 Remember how short my time is—[a]
for what vanity you have created all mortals!(A)
48 Who can live and never see death?
Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah(B)
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- 89.47 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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)
2 Samuel 14:14
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14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.[a](A)
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- 14.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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