12 Bible Verses about The Frailty Of Man

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All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;

But David said, “Your father certainly knows that you have come to look favorably on me. He has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or else he will be grieved.’” David also swore, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

My heart races, my strength leaves me,
and even the light of my eyes has faded.

But despite his assets, man will not last;
he is like the animals that perish.

He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.

For He knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,
turning up rocks,
so our bones have been scattered
at the mouth of Sheol.

Put no more trust in man,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?

A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said, “What should I cry out?”
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.

All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment;
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.