2 Samuel 19:34

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

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;

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

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.

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.”

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

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?

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.

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.

Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

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.

“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.

He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Whereas 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.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!