Job 14:1-2
Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All
1 “Man who is aborn of a womanis bfew of days and cfull of trouble.
2He comes out like da flower and ewithers;
he flees like fa shadow and continues not.
Psalms 39:4-7
4 “O Lord, gmake me know my endand what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and hmy lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely iall mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
6Surely a man jgoes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing ▼
▼Hebrew Surely as a breath
they are in turmoil;man lheaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
mMy hope is in you.
Psalms 90:5-10
5 You nsweep them away as with a flood; they are like oa dream,like pgrass that is renewed in the morning:
6in qthe morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it rfades and swithers.
7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
8You have tset our iniquities before you,
our usecret sins in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span ▼
▼Or pride
is but toil and trouble;they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalms 103:15-16
15 As for man, his days are like wgrass;he flourishes like xa flower of the field;
16for ythe wind passes over it, and zit is gone,
and aaits place knows it no more.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his abvain ▼▼The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
life, which he passes like ada shadow? For who can tell man what will be aeafter him under the sun? Ecclesiastes 9:10
10Whatever your hand finds to do, afdo it with your might, ▼▼Or finds to do with your might, do it
ahfor there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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