Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Psalms 94:11
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
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Psalms 39:4
“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
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Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Psalms 39:11
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Psalms 39:7
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Psalms 89:48
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Psalms 119:84
How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 7:3
so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
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Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
James 4:14
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Job 9:25
“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
Job 9:26
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Psalms 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Psalms 109:23
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
Genesis 4:2
Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
Psalms 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Psalms 90:11
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
2 Peter 3:8
But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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Psalms 90:5
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
Psalms 90:6
In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
Psalms 103:14
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Psalms 103:16
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
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Matthew 6:27
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
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Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
Psalms 39:9
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
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Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
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Psalms 49:1
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
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Job 10:20
Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
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Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
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Luke 12:25
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
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2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
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Psalms 3:2
Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.
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