Job 7:6

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

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“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
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“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope. ⁷
“Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh];
My eye will not see good again.

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Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.

Job 17:15

Where now is my hope?
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

Job 17:11

“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;
The wishes of my heart [are broken].

Job 6:11

“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?

Job 13:15

“Even though He kills me;
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless, I will argue my ways to His face.

Job 16:22

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

Psalm 90:5-6

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death.

Isaiah 38:12-13

“My dwelling (body) is pulled up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web].
He cuts me free from the warp [of the loom];
From day to night You bring me to an end.

Isaiah 40:6-7

A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.

Jeremiah 2:25

“[Cease your mad running after idols to]
Keep your feet from becoming bare
And your throat from becoming dry;
But you said, ‘It is hopeless!
For I have loved strangers and foreign gods,
And I will walk after them.’

Ephesians 2:12

remember that at that time you were separated from Christ [excluded from any relationship with Him], alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise [with no share in the sacred Messianic promise and without knowledge of God’s agreements], having no hope [in His promise] and [living] in the world without God.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away; so too will the rich man, in the midst of his pursuits, fade away.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

1 Peter 1:13

So prepare your minds for action, be completely sober [in spirit—steadfast, self-disciplined, spiritually and morally alert], fix your hope completely on the grace [of God] that is coming to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

1 Peter 1:24

For,“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,