Psalm 39:5
Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude
Psalm 62:9
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!
Psalm 144:4
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
Genesis 47:9
"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."
Job 7:6
My days pass as swiftly as a hand-loom; they come to their conclusion without hope.
Job 9:25-26
"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.
Job 14:1-2
Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:11
You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude
Psalm 90:4-5
One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.
Psalm 90:9-10
All our days pass away in your wrath; our years fade away and end like a sigh.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I examined all of my accomplishments that I had brought about by my own efforts, including the work that I had labored so hard to complete and it was all pointless, like chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained on earth.
Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him they are reckoned by him as nothing and chaos.
James 4:14
You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
2 Peter 3:8
Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.