Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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- Job 9:25 : 25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
- Job 17:15 : 15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
- Job 17:11 : 11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
- Isa 38:12-13 : 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life. 13 I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.
- 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,
- Isa 40:6-7 : 6 A voice says,“Cry out!” Another asks,“What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field. 7 The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
- Jer 2:25 : 25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’
- Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
- Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
- 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
- Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 13:15 : 15 Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
- Job 16:22 : 22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
- Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up; 6 in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.
- Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
- Ps 103:15-16 : 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
- Ps 144:4 : 4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
- Prov 14:32 : 32 An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.
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7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
- Job 9:25-262 verses80%
25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
26 They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
- Job 7:3-53 verses79%
3 thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
4 If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.
5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
- Isa 38:10-123 verses78%
10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
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16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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18 So I said,“My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD.”
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47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
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10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
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7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
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10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
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4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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1 The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
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1 The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
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3 For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
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14 whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
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9 Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.
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7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
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23 He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.
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7 But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!
- Job 30:15-162 verses71%
15 Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
16 Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.
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4 My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
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13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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13 Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
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23 I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
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28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
- Job 16:15-162 verses71%
15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
16 my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
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20 They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
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3 But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.
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4 ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
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20 But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.
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7 My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.
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6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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1 Micah Laments Judah’s Sin Woe is me! For I am like those gathering fruit, and those harvesting grapes, when there is no grape cluster to eat, and no fresh figs that my stomach craves.