As a breath – Job 7:7; Psalm 39:5
As an eagle speeding to its prey – Job 9:26
As a fleeting shadow – Ecclesiastes 6:12; Job 14:2
As a flower that withers – Job 14:2; I Peter 1:24
As grass that withers – Psalm 90:6; Isaiah 40:6-8; I Peter 1:24
As a handbreadth – Psalm 39:5
As a mist (vapor) – James 4:14
As a pilgrimage – Genesis 47:9
As a papyrus boat skimming across the water –
Job 9:26
As a shepherd’s tent quickly taken up – Isaiah 28:12
As a swift runner – Job 9:25
As a thread cut by the weaver – Isaiah 38:12
As water spilt on the ground – 2 Samuel 14:14
As a whisper – Psalm 90:9
“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12)
Wayne Burger