Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

A few years

Bible References

A few years

Job 14:5

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].

Whence

Job 7:9

“As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.
Job 14:10

“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.