13 Bible Verses about Life, Brevity Of
Most Relevant Verses
"LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
The voice of one saying, "Cry." One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
