Verse 12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:14 : 14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
  • Heb 1:12 : 12 They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.
  • Ps 89:45-47 : 45 You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.) 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire? 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Ps 102:23-24 : 23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days. 24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
  • Ps 119:23 : 23 Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
  • Isa 13:20 : 20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.
  • Job 4:20 : 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Job 7:3-7 : 3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me. 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light. 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again. 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.