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Related Verses

Job 7:7
“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 39:11
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

Psalm 102:3
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

James 4:14
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Psalm 39:6
Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Psalm 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

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