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 Peter 1:24
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24 For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,(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)
Psalm 102:3
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3 For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.(A)
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
1 John 2:17
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17 And the world and its desire[a] are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.(A)
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- 2.17 Or the desire for it
Job 14:1-2
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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)
2 comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.(B)
James 1:10
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10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A)
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Psalm 90:5-7
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.(B)
7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
Job 9:25-26
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25 “My days are swifter than a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
26 They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.(A)
1 Peter 4:7
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7 The end of all things is near;[a] therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.(A)
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- 4.7 Or is at hand
Psalm 89:47
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- 89.47 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 38:12
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12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;(A)
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