5 rBehold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing sbefore you.
Surely all mankind stands as a mere tbreath! Selah
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Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not;
the number of his years is unsearchable.
Psalm 77:10
Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Job 7:7
“Remember that my life is a breath;
my eye will never again see good.
Psalm 39:11
When you discipline a man
with rebukes for sin,
you consume like a moth what is dear to him;
surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and comes not again.
Psalm 102:3
For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
or like the dew that goes early away,
like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or like smoke from a window.
James 4:14
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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