13 Bible Verses about Life, Brevity Of

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

For he considered that they were but flesh; even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

And David sware again and said, "Thy father knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes and therefore he thinketh, 'Jonathan shall not know it, lest he be sorry.' For in very deed even as truly as the LORD liveth, and as truly as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death."

O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.