Ecclesiastes 6:6
Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice over and yet has seen no good and experienced no enjoyment—do not both go to one place [the grave]?”
Genesis 5:5
So Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years in all, and he died.
Genesis 5:23-24
So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
Job 1:21
He said,
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Job 7:7
“Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh];
My eye will not see good again.
Job 30:23
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.
Psalm 4:6-7
Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.
Psalm 34:12
Who is the man who desires life
And loves many days, that he may see good?
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Isaiah 65:20
“No longer shall there be
Or an old man who does not finish his days;
For the youth who dies at the age of a hundred,
And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred
Will be thought of as accursed.
Isaiah 65:22
“They will not build and another occupy;
They will not plant and another eat [the fruit].
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen [people] will fully enjoy [and long make use of] the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 17:6
“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,
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“They will not build and another occupy;
They will not plant and another eat [the fruit].
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen [people] will fully enjoy [and long make use of] the work of their hands.
Yet
“Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh];
My eye will not see good again.
Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.
Who is the man who desires life
And loves many days, that he may see good?
“No longer shall there be
Or an old man who does not finish his days;
For the youth who dies at the age of a hundred,
And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred
Will be thought of as accursed.
“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.
Do
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.