Job 27:19
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19 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
they open their eyes, and it is gone.(A)
Job 24:24
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24 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;[a]
they are cut off like the heads of grain.(A)
Footnotes
- 24.24 Gk: Heb like all others
Psalm 73:19-20
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19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
swept away utterly by terrors!(A)
20 They are[a] like a dream when one awakes;
on awaking you despise their phantoms.(B)
Footnotes
- 73.20 Cn: Heb Lord
Psalm 58:9
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9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!(A)
Jeremiah 8:2
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2 and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.(A)
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Matthew 23:37
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The Lament over Jerusalem
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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Matthew 3:12
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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”(A)
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Job 30:23
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23 I know that you will bring me to death,
to the house appointed for all living.(A)
Job 21:30
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30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity
and are rescued in the day of wrath?(A)
Job 21:23-26
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23 One dies in full prosperity,
being wholly at ease and secure,
24 his loins full of milk
and the marrow of his bones moist.
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of good.
26 They lie down alike in the dust,
and the worms cover them.(A)
Job 20:7-9
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7 they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(A)
9 The eye that saw them will see them no more,
nor will their place behold them any longer.(B)
Job 14:12-15
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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.(A)
13 O that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would conceal me until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!(B)
14 If mortals die, will they live again?
All the days of my service I would wait
until my release should come.(C)
15 You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
Job 14:10
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
Job 8:22
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22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”(A)
Job 7:8
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8 The eye that beholds me will see me no more;
while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.(A)
Genesis 49:10
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10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him,[a]
and the obedience of the peoples is his.(A)
Footnotes
- 49.10 Or until Shiloh comes or until he comes to Shiloh or (with Syr) until he comes to whom it belongs
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