42 Bible Verses About The brevity of life

And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth–lehem.

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

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 the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth–el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon–bachuth.

And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth–lehem.

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.