Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Bible References

Swifter

Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Esther 8:14
So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.

They flee away

Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
Psalm 90:9
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
James 4:14
Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.