17 Bible Verses about Time Passing

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Job 8:9

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

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 39:11

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

Psalm 39:5-6

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.) Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

1 Kings 18:29

And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.

2 Kings 21:6

And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

Acts 27:9

And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,

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