Quotes About Time

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

And so Job died, old and full of years.

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.