Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Cross-reference
In Job 10:9, Job again asks God to remember his clay origins and coming dust, echoing the plea to remember his fleeting life.
Job 10:21 continues the lament about death—'the land of darkness' from which he won't return—deepening the theme of life's end.
Job 10:22 further describes the gloomy afterlife, reinforcing the finality and darkness that follows the brief life of 7:7.
Job 9:25 compares days to a swift runner that flees—another vivid image of life's brevity, matching 7:7.
Job 10:20 pleads that his days are few and asks for a little cheer—directly building on the brevity lament in 7:7.
In Job 14:10, the same theme of life's brevity is repeated — man dies and vanishes, reinforcing Job's lament that his life is but a breath.
Job 33:22 describes the soul nearing death, paralleling Job's sense that his life is fleeting and near its end.
Psalm 78:39 says God remembered humans are but flesh and passing wind—directly parallels Job's 'life is a breath'.
Psalm 89:47 directly echoes Job's plea about life's shortness, asking God to remember how brief human time is.
James 4:14 calls life a vanishing mist—a NT parallel to Job's metaphor of life as a fleeting breath.
Psalm 34:12 asks who desires to see good days — contrasting with Job's despair that he will never see good again.
Isaiah 38:10 records Hezekiah's despair at dying in mid-life, echoing Job's sense of life being fleeting and ending prematurely.
Isaiah 38:12 uses vivid imagery of life being cut off — like a tent or loom — mirroring Job's metaphor of life as a breath that ends.
Lamentations 3:17 laments forgetting happiness and peace, paralleling Job's despair of never seeing good again.
Ecclesiastes 6:6 laments living long without enjoying good, similar to Job's hopelessness that he will never see good again.
Lamentations 5:1 opens with the same cry 'Remember, LORD,' pleading for God to see their disgrace, mirroring Job's plea for remembrance of his fleeting life.