Psalm 90:10
New Living Translation
10 Seventy years are given to us!
Some even live to eighty.
But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble;
soon they disappear, and we fly away.
James 4:14
New Living Translation
14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
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Psalm 78:39
New Living Translation
39 For he remembered that they were merely mortal,
gone like a breath of wind that never returns.
2 Samuel 19:35
New Living Translation
35 I am eighty years old today, and I can no longer enjoy anything. Food and wine are no longer tasty, and I cannot hear the singers as they sing. I would only be a burden to my lord the king.
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Genesis 47:9
New Living Translation
9 Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”
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Deuteronomy 34:7
New Living Translation
7 Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was clear, and he was as strong as ever.
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1 Kings 1:1
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David in His Old Age
1 King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.
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Job 24:24
New Living Translation
24 And though they are great now,
in a moment they will be gone like all others,
cut off like heads of grain.
Job 14:10
New Living Translation
10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.
They breathe their last, and then where are they?
Isaiah 38:12
New Living Translation
12 My life has been blown away
like a shepherd’s tent in a storm.
It has been cut short,
as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom.
Suddenly, my life was over.
Ecclesiastes 12:2-7
New Living Translation
2 Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky. 3 Remember him before your legs—the guards of your house—start to tremble; and before your shoulders—the strong men—stoop. Remember him before your teeth—your few remaining servants—stop grinding; and before your eyes—the women looking through the windows—see dimly.
4 Remember him before the door to life’s opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.
5 Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.
6 Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don’t wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well. 7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Luke 12:20
New Living Translation
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
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Job 20:8
New Living Translation
8 They will fade like a dream and not be found.
They will vanish like a vision in the night.
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