Bible Verses About The brevity of life

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.

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

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

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

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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

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.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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.

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

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

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

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

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

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?

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

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

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

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.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

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

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.