Verse 1

The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:7 : 7 but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
• Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!
• Matt 11:11 : 11 “I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is!
• Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
• Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Ps 39:5 : 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)
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
• Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile– like chasing the wind.
• Job 7:1 : 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?
• Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
• Job 9:25 : 25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.