17 Bible Verses about Physical Life

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Genesis 47:9

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 8:9

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

Job 14:2

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 90:9

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Isaiah 38:12

“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.

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