Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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Psalms 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Psalms 62:9
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
Psalms 94:11
The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.
Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Psalms 49:20
Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
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Psalms 39:4
Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
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Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Psalms 39:11
By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
Psalms 89:48
What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
Psalms 119:84
How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?
Job 4:19
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
Job 7:3
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Job 7:15
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Job 14:5
If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
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Psalms 89:47
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
James 4:14
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Job 7:7
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Job 14:1
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Job 9:25
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
Job 9:26
They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Isaiah 38:12
My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
Psalms 102:3
My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
Genesis 4:2
Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
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Psalms 90:4
For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:7
We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
Psalms 90:8
You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
Psalms 90:10
The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
Psalms 90:11
Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?
Psalms 90:12
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;
2 Peter 3:8
But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
1 John 2:17
And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
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Psalms 90:5
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Psalms 90:6
In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
Psalms 103:14
For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Psalms 103:16
The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
James 1:11
For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
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Matthew 6:27
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:23
All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
Romans 8:20
For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
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Psalms 39:3
My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,
Psalms 39:9
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
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Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
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Psalms 49:1
Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
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Job 10:20
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
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Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
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Luke 12:25
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?
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2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
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Psalms 3:2
Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)
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