Job 14:1
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
Job 5:7
“For man is born for trouble,
[As naturally] as sparks fly upward.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days his work is painful and sorrowful; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity (worthless).
Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
Job 15:14
“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?
Job 25:4
“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?
Psalm 39:5
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
Matthew 11:11
Job 7:1
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
Job 7:6
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
Job 9:25
“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.
Psalm 51:5
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind.
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Born
“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?
“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].
Of few days
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
Full
“For man is born for trouble,
[As naturally] as sparks fly upward.