aSee Lev. 25:23
1 Chronicles 29:15
15 aFor we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are blike a shadow, and there is no abiding. ▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect
Job 14:2
2He comes out like da flower and ewithers;he flees like fa shadow and continues not.
Psalms 102:11
11My days are like gan evening shadow;I hwither away like grass.
Psalms 144:4
4 iMan is like a breath;his days are like ja passing kshadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his lvain ▼▼The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
life, which he passes like na shadow? For who can tell man what will be oafter him under the sun? Ecclesiastes 8:13
13But it will pnot be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like qa shadow, because he does not fear before God.James 4:14
14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For ryou are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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