Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Job 14:2
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
James 4:14
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
1 Chronicles 29:15
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.
Job 8:9
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
Psalm 4:6
Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalm 16:5
LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot.
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 47:4
He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalm 90:10-12
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th
Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?
Ecclesiastes 9:6
As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.
Lamentations 3:24-27
LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
Micah 6:8
He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?