Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
His days
General references
Bible References
Man
Psalm 39:5
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
Psalm 62:9
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
Psalm 89:47
Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.
Job 4:19
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
Job 14:1
"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Vanity of vanity!" says the Teacher. "Everything [is] vanity!"
His days
Psalm 102:11
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
Psalm 103:15
As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
Psalm 109:23
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For {we must certainly die}, and [we are] as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Job 8:9
for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"