Psalm 39:5
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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
Psalm 144:4
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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 90:9-10
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9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span[a] is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Footnotes
- Psalm 90:10 Or pride
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
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11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was (A)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing (B)to be gained under the sun.
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James 4:14
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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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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 9:25-26
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25 “My (A)days are swifter than (B)a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
26 They go by like (C)skiffs of reed,
like (D)an eagle swooping on the prey.
Job 7:6
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Isaiah 40:17
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17 (A)All the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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Footnotes
- 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
Genesis 47:9
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9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my (A)sojourning are 130 years. (B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their (D)sojourning.”
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2 Peter 3:8
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8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and (A)a thousand years as one day.
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