Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Psalms 39:5 · 15 connections
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Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 90:10When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. …
End of linked passage: Job 9:26For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 90:5Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. …
End of linked passage: Job 14:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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