Psalms 103:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
  • Job 20:9 : 9 People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.
  • Job 7:6-9 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 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. 9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again. 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
  • Job 8:18-19 : 18 If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’ 19 Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
  • Job 27:20-21 : 20 Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

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    14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

    8The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable.”

  • Job 14:2
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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

    11For 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.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

    18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

  • Job 14:10-11
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    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

    11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

  • Eccl 1:4-6
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    4A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.

    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

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    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

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    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

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    39He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

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    5You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

    6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

  • Ps 103:17
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    17But the LORD continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

  • Job 21:18
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    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?

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    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

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    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

    21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

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    21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

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    21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

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    25When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

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    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

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    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

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    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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    36But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

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    12but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

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    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

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    24Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

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    71%

    7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

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    14You 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.

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    7When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

  • Hos 13:3
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    3Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

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    6What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.

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    10Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

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    10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

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    7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

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    1The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

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    15Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.