Job 14:1
New Living Translation
14 “How frail is humanity!
How short is life, how full of trouble!
Job 5:7
New Living Translation
7 People are born for trouble
as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
New Living Translation
23 Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.
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Job 25:4
New Living Translation
4 How can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
Job 7:1
New Living Translation
7 “Is not all human life a struggle?
Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
Psalm 51:5
New Living Translation
5 For I was born a sinner—
yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Job 15:14
New Living Translation
14 Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Job 9:25
New Living Translation
25 “My life passes more swiftly than a runner.
It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
Job 7:6
New Living Translation
Job Cries Out to God
6 “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.
They end without hope.
Genesis 47:9
New Living Translation
9 Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”
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Matthew 11:11
New Living Translation
11 “I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is!
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
New Living Translation
17 So I came to hate life because everything done here under the sun is so troubling. Everything is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
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Psalm 39:5
New Living Translation
5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.
My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;
at best, each of us is but a breath.” Interlude
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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