10 Bible Verses about Life Cut Short

He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

"My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

The mother who had seven children will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. She will suffer shame and humiliation. I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies," says the Lord.

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."

"I thought, 'In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.'

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.