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My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.[a](A)

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  1. 7.6 Or as the thread runs out

25 “My days are swifter than a runner;
    they flee away; they see no good.

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15 where then is my hope?
    Who will see my hope?(A)

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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)

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A voice says, “Cry out!”
    And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass;
    their constancy is like the flower of the field.(A)
The grass withers; the flower fades,
    [[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
    surely the people are grass.(B)

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  1. 40.6 Q ms Gk Vg: MT and he said

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)
13     I cry for help[a] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
    from day to night you bring me to an end.(B)

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  1. 38.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

32 The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing,
    but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.[a](A)

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  1. 14.32 Gk Syr: Heb in their death

They are like a breath;
    their days are like a passing shadow.(A)

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15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
    they flourish like a flower of the field;(A)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
    and its place knows it no more.

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11 My days are past; my plans are broken off,
    the desires of my heart.(A)

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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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11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.

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12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.(A)

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11 My days are like a lengthening shadow;
    I wither away like grass.(A)

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You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it fades and withers.(B)

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22 For when a few years have come,
    I shall go the way from which I shall not return.(A)

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15 See, he will kill me; I have no hope;[a]
    but I will defend my ways to his face.(A)

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  1. 13.15 Or Though he kill me, yet I will trust in him

11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
    And what is my end, that I should be patient?(A)

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25 Keep your feet from going bare
    and your throat from thirst.
But you said, “It is no use,
    for I have loved strangers,
    and after them I will go.”(A)

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A Call to Holy Living

13 Therefore prepare your minds for action;[a] discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.(A)

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  1. 1.13 Gk gird up the loins of your mind