Bible Dictionary: Vanity: Man at his Best Estate Is

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Celsus Has not Explained How Error Accompanies the "Becoming...
... Who has given so severe an estimate of the life of the human soul here on earth,
as he who says: "Verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity?" ...
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Of the Scriptures
... of the most excellent endowments of mind,"of all the specious actions of man it
is all but vanishing and vanity! "Every man at his best estate is such, yea ...
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Upon Compassion. Preached the First Sunday in Lent.
... the growth of prosperity and ease, and head us to reflect upon the deficiencies
of human life itself; that every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. ...
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The Scriptures Reveal Eternal Life through Jesus Christ
... you will even think that an odious comparison,"you will think all that earthly felicity
but light as vanity, "every man at his best estate is altogether ...
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the Nature of this Oversight
... now live to and upon the other creatures, and on himself; and thus, Every man at
his best estate' (the learned as well as the illiterate) is altogether vanity. ...
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I May Briefly Reduce the Chief Persuading Motive to this So ...
... Isaiah 40:6. Is not every man at his best estate altogether vanity? Psal.
xxxix.5. Is not man's breath in his nostrils? Isaiah 2:22. And am not I myself a ...
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Of the State Wherein Man was Created, and How the Image of God is ...
... experience and trial, that "this also is vanity and vexation of ... is nothing within
him sufficient to direct his way to ... And thus man is left to the invention and ...
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The Eighth Commandment
... who spends his hours in pleasure and vanity robs himself ... a great height, that, because
a man is grown ... rather let him labour, working with his hands.' Ephesians ...
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"But it is Good for Me to Draw Near to God: I have Put My Trust in ...
... a foundation and then they turn about again to some other vanity. ... we have such a
copy cast us, a man of excellent ... of that to David's soul, or of his soul to it ...
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"Be Ye Therefore Sober, and Watch unto Prayer. "
... ready for the journey, and his lamp in his hand, Luke ... The creature is now subject
to vanity and groaning, Romans 8 ... be consumed, and O! but many a man's god and ...
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