13 Bible Verses about Life, Brevity Of

Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.