Job 7:7

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

Cross-reference

Job 10:9 Parallel

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 Parallel

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 Related theme

Job 10:22 further describes the gloomy afterlife, reinforcing the finality and darkness that follows the brief life of 7:7.

Job 9:25 Parallel

Job 9:25 compares days to a swift runner that flees—another vivid image of life's brevity, matching 7:7.

Job 10:20 Parallel

Job 10:20 pleads that his days are few and asks for a little cheer—directly building on the brevity lament in 7:7.

Job 14:10 Related theme

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 Related theme

Job 33:22 describes the soul nearing death, paralleling Job's sense that his life is fleeting and near its end.

Psalm 78:39 Parallel

Psalm 78:39 says God remembered humans are but flesh and passing wind—directly parallels Job's 'life is a breath'.

Psalm 89:47 Parallel

Psalm 89:47 directly echoes Job's plea about life's shortness, asking God to remember how brief human time is.

James 4:14 Parallel

James 4:14 calls life a vanishing mist—a NT parallel to Job's metaphor of life as a fleeting breath.

Psalm 34:12 Contrast

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 Related theme

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.