12 Bible Verses about The Frailty Of Man

All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

David again said: Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes. He said: Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and you live, there is only a step between death and me.

My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me.

But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.

He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.

For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.

As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.

Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.

All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.