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Job 7:6
“ My days pass by faster than a weaver can work. They come to an end. I don’t have any hope.
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Proverbs 16:9
In their hearts human beings plan their lives. But the Lord decides where their steps will take them.
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Isaiah 38:10
I said,“ I’m enjoying the best years of my life. Must I now go through the gates of death? Will the rest of my years be taken away from me?”
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James 4:13-15
Now listen, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city. We will spend a year there. We will buy and sell and make money.”You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while. Then it disappears.Instead, you should say,“ If it pleases the Lord, we will live and do this or that.”
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Job 9:25-26
“ God, my days race by like a runner. They fly away without seeing any joy.They speed along like papyrus boats. They are like eagles swooping down on their food.
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2 Corinthians 1 15-2 Corinthians 1 17
Because I was sure of this, I wanted to visit you first. Here is how I thought you would be helped twice.I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia. I would have come back to you from there. Then you would have sent me on my way to Judea.When I planned all this, was I ready to change my mind for no good reason? No. I don’t make my plans the way the world makes theirs. In the same breath the world says both,“ Yes! Yes!” and“ No! No!”
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Isaiah 8:10
Make your battle plans! But you won’t succeed. Give your orders! But they won’t be carried out. That’s because God is with us.
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Proverbs 19:21
A person may have many plans in their heart. But the Lord’ s purpose wins out in the end.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
No matter what you do, work at it with all your might. Remember, you are going to the place of the dead. And there isn’t any work or planning or knowledge or wisdom there.
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Lamentations 3:37
Suppose people order something to happen. It won’t happen unless the Lord has planned it.
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Romans 1:13
Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that I planned many times to visit you. But until now I have been kept from coming. My work has produced results among the other Gentiles. In the same way, I want to see results among you.