Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Bible References

Born

Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
Matthew 11:11
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Of few days

Job 7:1
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Full

Job 5:7
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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