Bible Verses About Reflection on Time

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

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

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: