Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 102:11
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11 My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.
Psalm 102:11
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Psalm 109:23
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23 I am gone (A)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 109:23
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23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 39:5-6
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5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but (A)vapor. Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they [a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing
Psalm 39:5-6
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Footnotes
- Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.
Job 8:9
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- Job 8:9 Lit. not
Job 8:9
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Ecclesiastes 12:8
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8 “Vanity(A) of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“All is vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 12:8
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Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 12:8 Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 9 and 10
2 Samuel 14:14
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14 For we (A)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not (B)take away a life; but He (C)devises means, so that His banished ones are not [a]expelled from Him.
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- 2 Samuel 14:14 cast out
2 Samuel 14:14
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14 Like water(A) spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die.(B) But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person(C) does not remain banished from him.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
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13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
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13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God,(A) it will not go well with them, and their days(B) will not lengthen like a shadow.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(A)
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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- Ecclesiastes 1:2 Or Absurdity, Frustration, Futility, Nonsense; and so throughout the book
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(A)
Psalm 103:15-16
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15 As for man, (A)his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 (B)For the wind passes over it, and it is [a]gone,
And (C)its place remembers it no more.
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- Psalm 103:16 not
Psalm 103:15-16
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Psalm 89:47
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Psalm 89:47
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47 Remember how fleeting is my life.(A)
For what futility you have created all humanity!
Psalm 62:9
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9 (A)Surely men of low degree are [a]a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie;
If they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.
Footnotes
- Psalm 62:9 vanity
Psalm 62:9
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