Job 14:2

2He comes out like aa flower and bwithers;
he flees like ca shadow and continues not.

Psalms 39:5-6

5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and dmy lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely eall mankind stands as a mere breath!  Selah
6Surely a man fgoes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing
Hebrew  Surely as a breath
they are in turmoil;
man hheaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Psalms 102:3

3 For my days ipass away like smoke,
and my jbones burn like a furnace.

Psalms 109:23

23I am gone like ka shadow at evening;
I am lshaken off like a locust.

Psalms 144:4

4 mMan is like a breath;
his days are like na passing oshadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his pvain
The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
life, which he passes like ra shadow? For who can tell man what will be safter him under the sun?

James 4:14

14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For tyou are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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