Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Bible References
The bed
Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch cockatrice' eggs and weave the spider's web; whosoever shall eat of their eggs shall die, and if they should squeeze them, a viper shall come out.
Isaiah 64:6
But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah 66:3
He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense as if he blessed iniquity. They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit.
Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, that is to say, the righteousness which is by faith,
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.