Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
We are but
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Bible References
We are but
Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Psalm 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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Job 32:7
I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.