Bible Verses About Select Readings: The brevity of life

Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.

Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.

Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.

For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.

But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?