What Does the Bible Say About Life Is Like A Vapor ?

James 4:14 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Psalm 144:4 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

James 4:13-17 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 84 helpful votes

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 80 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 102:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 39:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!

Psalm 102:3 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

2 Samuel 14:14 ESV / 57 helpful votes

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

James 4:14-15 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Isaiah 40:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes

A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

Psalm 78:39 ESV / 35 helpful votes

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

James 4:13-15 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

Isaiah 40:6-8 ESV / 28 helpful votes

A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Psalm 89:47 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Job 14:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

James 4:1-17 ESV / 24 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...

Job 8:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 39:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes

When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

Job 7:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Isaiah 38:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

1 Chronicles 29:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

James 1:2-8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. ...

Ecclesiastes 6:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Job 9:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

James 1:2-4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Job 14:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

James 1:12-18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. ...

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Job 7:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

James 1:9-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

James 1:21-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. ...

James 1:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

Matthew 26:31-46 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.” Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same. ...

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Job 7:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

James 4:11-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Psalm 90:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

Job 7:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope. “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

48 Bible Verses about Life Is Like A Vapor

James 4:14 ESV / 171 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 144:4 ESV / 112 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:13-17 ESV / 103 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 93 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 84 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 80 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 102:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 39:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 102:3 ESV / 57 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 14:14 ESV / 57 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:14-15 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 78:39 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:13-15 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:6-8 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 89:47 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 14:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:1-17 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 8:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 39:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 7:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 38:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 29:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:2-8 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 6:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 1:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 9:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:2-4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 14:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:12-18 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 7:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:9-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:21-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:31-46 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 7:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:11-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 7:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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