Job 14:2
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Torrey's Topical Textbook—AKJVPsalm 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Torrey's Topical Textbook—AKJV
Book ii.
... has clothed itself with a variety of flowers, it is ... And certainly the usual shortness
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/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration vii panegyric on his.htm On the Soul and the Resurrection.
... information of the like, ascertaining the nature of the malady by the shortness
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... In the days of Nero there was great shortness of food in the city of ... but much more
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... the next wind may wither all the flowers, and where shall ... deceived; God is not mocked;
whatsoever a man soweth that ... of your own lives"by the shortness of time ...
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... the work we have to do, to the shortness and uncertainty ... with all its furniture of
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/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter vii the necessity of.htm False Profession.
... the canker-rose; flowers, and wild flowers; the apple ... his body, with headache, heartache,
backache, shortness of breath ... almost all the symptoms of a man past all ...
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... mercy from everlasting.' 'There is no single flowers in God's ... at the revelation of
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