Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
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- Job 9:25 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
- Job 17:15 : 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
- Job 17:11 : 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
- Isa 38:12-13 : 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. 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
- 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
- Isa 40:6-7 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
- Jer 2:25 : 25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.
- Eph 2:12 : 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
- Jas 1:11 : 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
- 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.
- 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
- Job 6:11 : 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
- Job 13:15 : 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
- Job 16:22 : 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
- Ps 90:5-6 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
- Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
- Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
- Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
- Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
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7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
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25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
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3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
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5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
- Isa 38:10-123 verses78%
10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
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.
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15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
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11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
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11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
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16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
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20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
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18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
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47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
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10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
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7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
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4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
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1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
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1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
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3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
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14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
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9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
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7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
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23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
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7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
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15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
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4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
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13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
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13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
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15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
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20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
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3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
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4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
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20 My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.
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7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
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6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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1 Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.