Verse 12

Their inward thought is that their houses will last forever, and their dwelling places for all generations; they call their lands by their own names.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:20 : 20 They will go to the generation of their fathers; they will never see the light again.
  • Ps 82:7 : 7 However, like men, you will die; and like one of the princes, you will fall.
  • Eccl 3:18-21 : 18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man, that God is testing them to show them that they are like animals. 19 For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over animals, for everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down to the earth?
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,