9 Bible Verses about Life Cut Short

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.