Psalm 62:10
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III
10 Mortals are a mere breath,
the sons of man but an illusion;(A)
On a balance they rise;[a]
together they weigh nothing.
Footnotes
- 62:10 On a balance they rise: precious objects were weighed by balancing two pans suspended from a beam. The lighter pan rises.
Psalm 90:9-10
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9 Our life ebbs away under your wrath;(A)
our years end like a sigh.
10 Seventy is the sum of our years,
or eighty, if we are strong;
Most of them are toil and sorrow;
they pass quickly, and we are gone.
Job 7:16
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16 I waste away: I will not live forever;(A)
let me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
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12 (A)For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?(B)
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Wisdom 2:5
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5 For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow;
and our dying cannot be deferred
because it is fixed with a seal; and no one returns.(A)
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