13 Bible Verses about Life, Brevity Of
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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 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.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
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.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
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