Luke 8:14 And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion. (See NIV)
Luke 12:25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? (See NAS)
Psalms 39:4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. (See NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he. (See RSV)