Psalm 39:5
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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
Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 89:47
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Psalm 90:9-10
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9 For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.
10 The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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
Ecclesiastes 2:11
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11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was (A)vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.
James 4:14
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14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? (A)It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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Psalm 90:4-5
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4 (A)For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night.
5 You carry them away like a flood;
(B)They are like a sleep.
In the morning (C)they are like grass which grows up:
Psalm 39:11
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11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty (A)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah
Job 14:1-2
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Job Speaks of Life’s Woes
14 “Man who is born of woman
Is of few days and (A)full of [a]trouble.
2 (B)He comes forth like a flower and fades away;
He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
Footnotes
- Job 14:1 turmoil
Job 9:25-26
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25 “Now (A)my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.
26 They pass by like [a]swift ships,
(B)Like an eagle swooping on its prey.
Footnotes
- Job 9:26 Lit. ships of reeds
Job 7:6
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6 “My(A) days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
Isaiah 40:17
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17 All nations before Him are as (A)nothing,
And (B)they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 1:2 Or Absurdity, Frustration, Futility, Nonsense; and so throughout the book
Genesis 47:9
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9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, (A)“The days of the years of my [a]pilgrimage are (B)one hundred and thirty years; (C)few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (D)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
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- Genesis 47:9 Lit. sojourning
2 Peter 3:8
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8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and (A)a thousand years as one day.
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