Job 14:2
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Job 8:9
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9 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are (A)a shadow.
Isaiah 40:6-8
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The Word of God Stands Forever
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
(A)All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty[b] is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8 (B)The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
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- Isaiah 40:6 Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says
- Isaiah 40:6 Or all its constancy
1 Peter 1:24
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24 for
(A)“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 (A)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are (B)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[a]
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- 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect
James 4:14
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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 102:11
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
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13 But it will (A)not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like (B)a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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Psalm 92:12
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12 (A)The righteous flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalm 90:5-9
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5 You (A)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like (B)a dream,
like (C)grass that is renewed in the morning:
6 in (D)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it (E)fades and (F)withers.
7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
8 You have (G)set our iniquities before you,
our (H)secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
Job 9:25-26
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25 “My (A)days are swifter than (B)a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
26 They go by like (C)skiffs of reed,
like (D)an eagle swooping on the prey.
James 1:10-11
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10 and (A)the rich in his humiliation, because (B)like a flower of the grass[a] he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and (C)withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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- James 1:10 Or a wild flower
Psalm 92:7
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7 that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
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