1 Samuel 20: 3

 

there is hardly a step between me and death. 

 

 

1 Chronicles 29: 15

 

Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. 

 

 

Job 7: 6

 

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And come to an end without hope. 

 

 

Job 8: 9

 

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are like a shadow

 

 

Job 9: 25

 

Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. 

 

 

Job 14: 1-2

 

Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

 

 

Psalm 37: 2

 

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

 

 

Psalm 39: 4

 

make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. 

 

 

Psalm 49: 12

 

But man in his pomp will not endure; He is like the beasts that perish

 

 

Psalm 78: 39

 

Thus he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not return. 

 

 

Psalm 90: 5-6

 

You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,

like grass that is renewed in the morning:

in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.

 

Psalm 102: 3-4

 

For my days pass away like smoke,

and my bones burn like a furnace.

My heart is struck down like grass and has withered;

I forget to eat my bread.

 

 

Psalm 102: 11

 

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

 

 

Psalm 102: 25-27

 

Of old you laid the foundations of the earth,

and the heaven’s are the works of your hands.

They will perish, but you will remain;

they will all wear out like a garment.

You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

but you are the same, and your years have no end.

 

 

Psalm 103: 15-16

 

As for man, his days are like grass;

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

and its place knows it no more.

 

 

Psalm 109: 23

 

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust. 

 

Psalm 144: 4

 

Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow. 

 

 

Ecclesiastes 1: 2-3

 

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,

vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

What does man gain by all the toil

at which he toils under the sun?

 

 

Isaiah 40: 6-8

 

All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the field.

The grass withers, and the flower fades,

but the word of our God stands forever.

 

 

Isaiah 51: 12

 

I, I am he who comforts you; 

who are you that you are afraid

of man who dies,

of the son of man who is

made like grass

 

James 1: 11

For the sun rises with

scorching heat and withers the grass;

its flowers falls, and its beauty perishes.

So also will the rich man fade away in

the midst of his pursuits.

 

 

James 4: 13-14

 

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.