All these figures are strong and expressive, to show the transiency and emptiness of all things in man's strength, or man's attainment.
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Hosea 13:3
3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.