13 Bible Verses about Life, Brevity Of

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may 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 were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

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

For 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. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, 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 certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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 said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: