Job 6:11
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11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should be patient?(A)
Psalm 103:14-16
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14 For he knows how we were made;
he remembers that we are dust.(A)
15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(B)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
Psalm 102:23
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23 He has broken my strength in midcourse;
he has shortened my days.(A)
Psalm 39:5
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5 You have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah(A)
Job 17:1
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Job Prays for Relief
17 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;
the grave is ready for me.(A)
Psalm 90:5-10
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.(B)
7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(C)
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end[a] like a sigh.(D)
10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[b] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(E)
Job 21:4
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4 As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals?
Why should I not be impatient?(A)
Job 17:14-16
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14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(A)
15 where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?(B)
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?”(C)
Job 13:28
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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)
Job 13:25
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25 Will you frighten a windblown leaf
and pursue dry chaff?(A)
Job 10:20
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Job 7:5-7
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5 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;
my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
and come to their end without hope.[a](A)
7 “Remember that my life is a breath;
my eye will never again see good.(B)
Footnotes
- 7.6 Or as the thread runs out
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