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Psalms 102:11
My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.
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Job 8:9
since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.
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Psalms 109:23
I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
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Psalms 39:5-6
In fact, you have made my days just inches long, and my life span is as nothing to you. Yes, every human being stands as only a vapor. SelahYes, a person goes about like a mere shadow. Indeed, they rush around in vain, gathering possessions without knowing who will get them.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
“ Absolute futility,” says the Teacher.“ Absolute futility. Everything is futile.”
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.
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Job 14:1-3
Anyone born of woman is short of days and full of trouble.He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.Do you really take notice of one like this? Will you bring me into judgment against you?
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Psalms 39:11
You discipline a person with punishment for iniquity, consuming like a moth what is precious to him; yes, every human being is only a vapor. Selah
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Job 4:19
how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!
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Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my life is. Have you created everyone for nothing?
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Psalms 103:15-16
As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;when the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
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2 Samuel 14 14
We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.
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Ecclesiastes 12:8
“ Absolute futility,” says the Teacher.“ Everything is futile.”
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Psalms 62:9
Common people are only a vapor; important people, an illusion. Together on a scale, they weigh less than a vapor.
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1 Chronicles 29 15
For we are aliens and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.