Job 30:23
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Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
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5 they are afraid also of what is high, and (A)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his (B)eternal (C)home, and the (D)mourners go about the streets— 6 before the silver cord is snapped, or (E)the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is (F)shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and (G)the dust returns to the earth as it was, and (H)the spirit returns to God (I)who gave it.
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- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or is a burden
Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
(A)for you are dust,
and (B)to dust you shall return.”
Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as (A)it is appointed for man to die once, and (B)after that comes judgment,
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
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5 For the living know that they will die, but (A)the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for (B)the memory of them is forgotten.
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Ecclesiastes 8:8
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8 No man has power to (A)retain the spirit, (B)or power over the day of death. There is no (C)discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
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Job 21:33
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33 (A)The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
(B)all mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.
Job 14:5
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5 Since his (A)days are determined,
and (B)the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
Job 10:8
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8 (A)Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
Job 9:22
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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He (A)destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 3:19
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19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
2 Samuel 14:14
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14 We must all die; we are (A)like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means (B)so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
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