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 announce thy justice and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 59:5
They plundered vipers' eggs, and they will weave spiders webs: he eating from their eggs shall die, and being crushed, it shall break forth a viper.
Isaiah 64:6
And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.
Isaiah 66:3
He slaughtering the ox, striking a man; he sacrificing a sheep, broke a dog's neck; he bringing up a gift, swine's blood; he making remembrance of frankincense, praising vanity; also they chose their ways, and in their abominations their soul delighted.
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.
Romans 9:30
What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us saved it is the power of God.