Fleeting

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

For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

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?

Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.

Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.

So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.