Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 102:11
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11 My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.
Psalm 109:23
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23 I am gone (A)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 39:5-6
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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
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they [a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing
Job 8:9
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- Job 8:9 Lit. not
Ecclesiastes 12:8
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8 “Vanity(A) of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“All is vanity.”
2 Samuel 14:14
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14 For we (A)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not (B)take away a life; but He (C)devises means, so that His banished ones are not [a]expelled from Him.
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- 2 Samuel 14:14 cast out
Ecclesiastes 8:13
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13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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- Ecclesiastes 1:2 Or Absurdity, Frustration, Futility, Nonsense; and so throughout the book
Psalm 103:15-16
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15 As for man, (A)his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 (B)For the wind passes over it, and it is [a]gone,
And (C)its place remembers it no more.
Footnotes
- Psalm 103:16 not
Psalm 89:47
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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.
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- Psalm 62:9 vanity
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 14:1-3
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1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 For (A)we are [a]aliens and [b]pilgrims before You,
As were all our fathers;
(B)Our days on earth are as a shadow,
And without hope.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 sojourners, temporary residents
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 transients, temporary residents in an even more temporary sense
Job 4:19
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19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before a moth?
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