Bible Verses About Brevity of life

Here we have collected several Bible verses about Brevity of life from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV).

Job 7:6-10

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"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more:…

Psalms 39:4-6

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"LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before…

Isaiah 64:6

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"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away" - Isaiah 64:6 KJV

Isaiah 51:12

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"I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;" - Isaiah 51:12 KJV

Isaiah 51:8

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"For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation" - Isaiah 51:8 KJV

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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"For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun" - Ecclesiastes…

Job 10:20-21

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"Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;" - Job 10:20-21…

Psalms 89:47-48

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"Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah" - Psalms 89:47-48…

Isaiah 38:12

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"Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end…

2 Samuel 14:14

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"For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him" - 2…

Psalms 90:5-6

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"Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth"…

Isaiah 40:24

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"Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away…

Psalms 103:14-16

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"For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the…

Isaiah 40:6-7

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"The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth…

1 Samuel 20:3

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"And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul…

Genesis 47:9

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"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of…

Psalms 90:9-10

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"For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,…

Job 4:19-21

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"How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. Doth not…

James 1:10-11

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"But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof…

James 4:14

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"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away" - James 4:14 KJV

Psalms 22:29

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"All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul" - Psalms 22:29 KJV

1 Chronicles 29:15

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"For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding" - 1 Chronicles 29:15 KJV

Isaiah 2:22

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"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of" - Isaiah 2:22 KJV

Psalms 146:4

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"His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish" - Psalms 146:4 KJV

Job 14:1

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"Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble" - Job 14:1 KJV

Psalms 144:4

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"Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away" - Psalms 144:4 KJV

Job 13:12

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"Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay" - Job 13:12 KJV

Job 9:25

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"Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good" - Job 9:25 KJV

Job 13:28

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"And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten" - Job 13:28 KJV

Job 17:1

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"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me" - Job 17:1 KJV

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