Psalm 144:4
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4 They are like a breath;
their days are like a passing shadow.(A)
Psalm 102:11
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11 My days are like a lengthening shadow;
I wither away like grass.(A)
Psalm 109:23
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23 I am gone like a shadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.(A)
Psalm 39:5-6
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5 You have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah(A)
6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(B)
Job 8:9
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9 for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,
for our days on earth are but a shadow.(A)
Ecclesiastes 12:8
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8 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity.
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2 Samuel 14:14
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14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.[a](A)
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- 14.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Ecclesiastes 8:13
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13 but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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2 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.(A)
Psalm 103:15-16
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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.
Psalm 89:47
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- 89.47 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 62:9
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9 Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.(A)
Psalm 39:11
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11 “You chastise mortals
in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(A)
Job 14:1-3
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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)
2 comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.(B)
3 Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
Do you bring me into judgment with you?(C)
1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.(A)
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Job 4:19
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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth.(A)
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