Bible Verses About Select Readings: The brevity of life

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?