Which other Scriptures highlight life's fleeting nature like Psalm 90:5? Psalm 90:5 in View “You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning.” (Psalm 90:5) Moses pictures humanity as overnight grass—fresh at dawn, gone by dusk—underscoring how swiftly earthly life slips away. Old Testament Reinforcements • Psalm 39:5-6 – “You, indeed, have made my days only a few handbreadths… Surely every man at his best exists as but a breath… Surely every man walks about like a phantom; surely they busy themselves in vain.” • Psalm 103:15-16 – “As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field; when the wind has passed over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.” • Job 7:6-7 – “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle… my life is but a breath.” • Job 14:1-2 – “Man, 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.” • Isaiah 40:6-8 – “All flesh is grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field… The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” • Ecclesiastes 6:12 – “For who knows what is good for a man during his few and fleeting days of life that he passes like a shadow?” • 1 Chronicles 29:15 – “For we are foreigners and sojourners in Your presence, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.” New Testament Echoes • James 4:14 – “You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” • 1 Peter 1:24 – “For, ‘All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.’” • 1 John 2:17 – “The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.” • 2 Corinthians 4:18 – “What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” • Luke 12:20 – God’s verdict on the rich fool: “This very night your life will be required of you.” • Hebrews 9:27 – “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” Unified Picture of Human Brevity and Divine Permanence • Scripture repeatedly likens life to grass, mist, breath, shadow, vapor, and a passing flower. • Every passage sets human transience against God’s unchanging nature and eternal word. • The consistent call is to number our days wisely, fix our hope on the Lord, and invest in what endures forever. |
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