33 So he made (A)their days (B)vanish like[a] a breath,[b]
    and their years in terror.

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  1. Psalm 78:33 Hebrew in
  2. Psalm 78:33 Or vapor

35 (A)I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all (B)this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”

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29 (A)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and (B)of all your number, listed in the census (C)from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

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64 (A)But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had said of them, (B)“They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, (C)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. (A)Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.[a] 14 For (B)God will bring every deed into judgment, with[b] every secret thing, whether good or evil.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 12:13 Or the duty of all mankind
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:14 Or into the judgment on

(A)Vanity[a] of vanities, says (B)the Preacher; all is vanity.

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  1. 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

13 And I (A)applied my heart[a] to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy (B)business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is (C)vanity[b] and a striving after wind.[c]

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  1. Ecclesiastes 1:13 The Hebrew term denotes the center of one's inner life, including mind, will, and emotions
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:14 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
  3. 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)

(A)Vanity[a] of vanities, says (B)the Preacher,
    (C)vanity of vanities! (D)All is vanity.

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  1. 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

For we are brought to an end by your anger;
    by your wrath we are dismayed.
You have (A)set our iniquities before you,
    our (B)secret sins in the light of your presence.

For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

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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.

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For affliction does not come from the dust,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
but man is (A)born to trouble
    as the sparks fly upward.

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14 And the time from our leaving (A)Kadesh-barnea until we crossed (B)the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, (C)until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. 15 For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.

16 “So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,

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16 To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
    (A)in pain you shall bring forth children.
(B)Your desire shall be contrary to[a] your husband,
    but he shall (C)rule over you.”

17 And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
(D)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
(E)cursed is the ground because of you;
    (F)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(G)for you are dust,
    and (H)to dust you shall return.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:16 Or shall be toward (see 4:7)

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