Verse 8

May they vanish like water that flows away; when they aim their arrows, may they be blunted.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy life's good things and receives no proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree. 36 Yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched for him, he could not be found.