Psalm 78:39
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39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and does not come again.(A)
James 4:14
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14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)
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Job 7:7
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7 “Remember that my life is a breath;
my eye will never again see good.(A)
Genesis 6:3
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3 Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide[a] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”(A)
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- 6.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 7:16
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16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(A)
Psalm 103:14-16
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14 For he knows how we were made;
he remembers that we are dust.(A)
15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(B)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
Job 10:9
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9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
and will you turn me to dust again?(A)
John 3:6
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6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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