Job 9:25

Renewed Complaint

9:25 “My days are swifter than a runner,

they speed by without seeing happiness.

Job 16:22

16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few,

and then I will go on the way of no return.

Job 17:11

17:11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered,

even the desires of my heart.

Psalms 90:5-6

90:5 You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.”

In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

90:6 in the morning it glistens and sprouts up;

at evening time it withers and dries up.

Psalms 102:11

102:11 My days are coming to an end,

and I am withered like grass.

Psalms 103:15-16

103:15 A person’s life is like grass.

Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

103:16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears,

and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

Psalms 144:4

144:4 People are like a vapor,

their days like a shadow that disappears.

Isaiah 38:12-13

38:12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me

like a shepherd’s tent.

I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth;

from the loom he cuts me off.

You turn day into night and end my life.

38:13 I cry out until morning;

like a lion he shatters all my bones;

you turn day into night and end my life.

Isaiah 40:6-7

40:6 A voice says, “Cry out!”

Another asks, “What should I cry out?”

The first voice responds: “All people are like grass,

and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.

40:7 The grass dries up,

the flowers wither,

when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them.

Surely humanity is like grass.

James 1:11

1:11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

James 4:14

4:14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

James 4:1

Passions and Pride

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

James 1:24

1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.