Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Bible References
A vapour
James 1:10
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Job 14:1
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalm 90:5
Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Psalm 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.
1 Peter 1:24
Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.
1 John 2:17
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.