Job 7:6
New Living Translation
Job Cries Out to God
6 “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle.
They end without hope.
Job 9:25
New Living Translation
25 “My life passes more swiftly than a runner.
It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
Job 17:15
New Living Translation
15 Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?
1 Peter 1:24
New Living Translation
24 As the Scriptures say,
“People are like grass;
their beauty is like a flower in the field.
The grass withers and the flower fades.
Isaiah 38:12-13
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.
13 I waited patiently all night,
but I was torn apart as though by lions.
Suddenly, my life was over.
Job 17:11
New Living Translation
11 My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
1 Peter 1:13
New Living Translation
A Call to Holy Living
13 So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
Read full chapter
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.
Read full chapter
James 1:11
New Living Translation
11 The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.
Read full chapter
Ephesians 2:12
New Living Translation
12 In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 2:25
New Living Translation
25 When will you stop running?
When will you stop panting after other gods?
But you say, ‘Save your breath.
I’m in love with these foreign gods,
and I can’t stop loving them now!’
Isaiah 40:6-7
New Living Translation
6 A voice said, “Shout!”
I asked, “What should I shout?”
“Shout that people are like the grass.
Their beauty fades as quickly
as the flowers in a field.
7 The grass withers and the flowers fade
beneath the breath of the Lord.
And so it is with people.
Proverbs 14:32
New Living Translation
32 The wicked are crushed by disaster,
but the godly have a refuge when they die.
Psalm 144:4
New Living Translation
4 For they are like a breath of air;
their days are like a passing shadow.
Psalm 103:15-16
New Living Translation
15 Our days on earth are like grass;
like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
16 The wind blows, and we are gone—
as though we had never been here.
Psalm 102:11
New Living Translation
11 My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.
I am withering away like grass.
Psalm 90:5-6
New Living Translation
5 You sweep people away like dreams that disappear.
They are like grass that springs up in the morning.
6 In the morning it blooms and flourishes,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
Job 16:22
New Living Translation
22 For soon I must go down that road
from which I will never return.
Job 13:15
New Living Translation
15 God might kill me, but I have no other hope.[a]
I am going to argue my case with him.
Footnotes
- 13:15 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text reads God might kill me, but I hope in him.
Job 6:11
New Living Translation
11 But I don’t have the strength to endure.
I have nothing to live for.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
