Psa 39:6, 73:18-20, 90:9, 102:26, Isa 40:6-8, Mat 24:35, 1Cor 7:31 | TSK | STEP | a vain shew. Heb. an image.There is but the semblance of being: he appeareth for a little, and then vanisheth. surely. he heapeth.

passed. Heb. turned. we spend.The Vulgate has, {Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur,} "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the Versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew MSS., or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," {kemo hegeh.}

a tale. Heb. a meditation.

4; 39:5

Psalms 102:26

They shall.

Isa 34:4; 51:6; 65:17; 66:22; Lu 21:33; Ro 8:20; 2Pe 3:7-12

Re 20:11; 21:1

endure. Heb. stand.

12; Ex 3:14

Isaiah 40:6-8

Cry.

3; 12:6; 58:1; 61:1,2; Jer 2:2; 31:6; Ho 5:8

All flesh.

37:27; Job 14:2; Ps 90:5,6; 92:7; 102:11; 103:15,16; Jas 1:10,11

1Pe 1:24

the word.

46:10,11; 55:10,11; Ps 119:89-91; Zec 1:6; Mt 5:18; 24:35; Mr 13:31

Joh 10:35; 12:34; Ro 3:1-3; 1Pe 1:25

Matthew 24:35

Heaven.

5:18; Ps 102:26; Isa 34:4; 51:6; 54:10; Jer 31:35,36; Heb 1:11,12

2Pe 3:7-12; Re 6:14; 20:11

my.

Nu 23:19; Ps 19:7; 89:34; Pr 30:5; Isa 40:8; 55:11; Tit 1:2; 1Pe 1:25

Re 3:14

1 Corinthians 7:31

use.

9:18; Ec 2:24,25; 3:12,13; 5:18-20; 9:7-10; 11:2,9,10; Mt 24:48-50

Mt 25:14-29; Lu 12:15-21; 16:1,2; 19:17-26; 21:34; 1Ti 6:17,18

Jas 5:1-5

for.

Ps 39:6; 73:20; Ec 1:4; Jas 1:10,11; 4:14; 1Pe 1:24; 4:7; 1Jo 2:17

the fashion.[To schema ,] the form or appearance. Grotius remarks that the apostle's expression is borrowed from the theatre, where [to schema tes skenes paragei] means that the scene changes, and presents an appearance entirely new.