Psalm 144:4
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
Psalm 102:11
My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.
Job 8:9
Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.
Psalm 109:23
I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.
Job 4:19
how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?
Job 14:1-3
Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5-6
Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude
Psalm 39:11
You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude
Psalm 62:9
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!
Psalm 103:15-16
A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless like chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Everything is pointless."