15 For ewe are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are flike a shadow, and there is no abiding.
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Leviticus 25:23
“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
Psalm 39:12
“Hear my prayer, O LORD,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.
Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Psalm 39:6
Surely a man goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
Psalm 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like a shadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
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