Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

General references

Bible References

What

Job 7:5

“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
Job 10:20

“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
Job 13:25

“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?
Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?
Job 17:1
“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.
Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.
Psalm 90:5

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Psalm 102:23

He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.
Psalm 103:14

For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.

General references

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”
Lamentations 3:18

So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”