15 Bible Verses about Physical Life

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Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Job 8:9

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Job 9:25

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Isaiah 38:12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

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