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
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
Job 7:6
My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.
Job 9:25
My days were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good.
Job 14:1
Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 89:47
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
Psalm 90:5
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
Psalm 102:3
For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.
Isaiah 38:12
Mine age removed, and was carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I rolled together as a weaver my life: from the thread he will cut me off: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:
1 Peter 4:7
And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.
1 John 2:17
And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever.