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 your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not do you any good.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah 66:3
He who kills an ox is is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot do any good.
Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.