Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 102:11
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Psalm 109:23
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Psalm 39:5-6
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5 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
6 Surely a man (C)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man (D)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
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- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
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.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
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8 (A)Vanity[a] of vanities, says (B)the Preacher; all is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 12:8 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (three times in this verse); see note on 1:2
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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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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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is (A)vanity[a] and a striving after wind.[b]
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- Ecclesiastes 1:14 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 Or a feeding on wind; compare Hosea 12:1 (also in Ecclesiastes 1:17; 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9)
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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- Ecclesiastes 1:2 The Hebrew term hebel, translated vanity or vain, refers concretely to a “mist,” “vapor,” or “mere breath,” and metaphorically to something that is fleeting or elusive (with different nuances depending on the context). It appears five times in this verse and in 29 other verses in Ecclesiastes
Psalm 89:47
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47 (A)Remember (B)how short my (C)time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Psalm 62:9
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9 (A)Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate (B)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
(C)they are together lighter than a breath.
Psalm 39:11
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11 When you discipline a man
with (A)rebukes for sin,
you (B)consume like a (C)moth what is dear to him;
(D)surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Job 14:1-3
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Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All
14 “Man who is (A)born of a woman
is (B)few of days and (C)full of trouble.
2 He comes out like (D)a flower and (E)withers;
he flees like (F)a shadow and continues not.
3 And do you (G)open your eyes on such a one
and (H)bring me into judgment with you?
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
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