Job 9:25

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.

So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

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

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;

The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.