Life: Brevity and Uncertainty of
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Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
Genesis 47:9
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
1 Samuel 20:3
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
2 Samuel 14:14
For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Job 4:19–21
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! / They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. / Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Job 7:6–10, 17
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. / Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness. / The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
Job 8:9
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Job 9:25, 26
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good. / They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Job 10:9, 20, 21
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust? / Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, / before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
Job 13:12, 25, 28
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. / Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff? / So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Job 14:1, 2
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. / Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Job 17:1
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
Psalm 22:29
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
Psalm 39:4–6, 11
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. / You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah / Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Psalm 89:47, 48
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! / What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Psalm 90:3, 5, 6, 9, 10
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.” / You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— / in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
Psalm 103:14–16
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. / As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field; / when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
Psalm 144:3, 4
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? / Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Psalm 146:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Isaiah 2:22
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
Isaiah 40:6, 7, 24
A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. / The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. / No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
Isaiah 50:9
Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
Isaiah 51:8, 12
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.” / “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
Isaiah 64:6
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
James 1:10, 11
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. / For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,