Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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Bible References
We are but
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
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.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
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
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Job 32:7
I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.