Psalm 49:12
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12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(A)
Ecclesiastes 3:18-21
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18 I said to myself with regard to humans that God is testing[a] them to show that they are but animals.(A) 19 For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.(B) 20 All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.(C) 21 Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?(D)
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- 3.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 49:20
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20 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(A)
Psalm 39:5
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5 You have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah(A)
James 1:10-11
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10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A) 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.
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Ecclesiastes 9:12
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12 For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.(A)
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Psalm 82:7
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- 82.7 Or fall as one man, O princes
1 Peter 1:24
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24 For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,(A)
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