TOPICAL STUDY
BREVITY OF LIFE
GEN 47:9 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.
1SA 20:3 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.
2SA 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which
cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he
devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
1CH 29:15 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.
JOB 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation
is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
JOB 4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever
without any regarding it.
JOB 4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even
without wisdom.
JOB 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without
hope.
JOB 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
JOB 7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are
upon me, and I am not.
JOB 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to
the grave shall come up no more.
JOB 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him
any more.
JOB 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
earth are a shadow:)
JOB 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
JOB 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt
thou bring me into dust again?
JOB 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take
comfort a little,
JOB 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness
and the shadow of death;
JOB 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
JOB 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth
eaten.
JOB 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
JOB 17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for
me.
PSA 22:29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that
go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
PSA 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it
is: that I may know how frail I am.
PSA 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as
nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Selah.
PSA 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in
vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
PSA 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his
beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
PSA 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away,
and cometh not again.
PSA 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in
vain?
PSA 89:48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver
his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
PSA 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of
men.
PSA 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the
morning they are like grass which groweth up.
PSA 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is
cut down, and withereth.
PSA 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a
tale that is told.
PSA 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason
of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow;
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
PSA 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like
grass.
PSA 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
PSA 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he
flourisheth.
PSA 103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof
shall know it no more.
PSA 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
PSA 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day
his thoughts perish.
PRO 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth.
ECC 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the
earth abideth for ever.
ECC 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his
vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be
after him under the sun?
ISA 2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he
to be accounted of?
ISA 38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I
have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness:
from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
ISA 40:6 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:
ISA 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD
bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
ISA 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea,
their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them,
and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
ISA 51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat
them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from
generation to generation.
ISA 51:12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall
be made as grass;
ISA 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
LUK 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be
required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
JAM 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the
grass he shall pass away.
JAM 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth
the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it
perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
JAM 4:14 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.
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