19 Bible Verses about Time Passing

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah. Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth; For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

and it cometh to pass, at the passing by of the noon, that they feign themselves prophets till the going up of the present, and there is no voice, and there is none answering, and there is none attending.

and he hath caused his son to pass through fire, and observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah -- to provoke to anger.

and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.