Verse 23

I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:19 : 19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the territory of Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
  • Ps 102:10-11 : 10 Because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have lifted me up and cast me down. 11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.