Quotes related to James 4:14
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
— Psalm 129:6
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
— Psalm 144:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
— Psalm 146:4
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
— Proverbs 5:11
restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
— Proverbs 27:16
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 1:14
This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
— Ecclesiastes 5:16
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
— Ecclesiastes 6:12
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
— Ecclesiastes 7:2
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
— Ecclesiastes 8:8
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
— Ecclesiastes 9:12
So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
— Ecclesiastes 11:10