Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

General references

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.)

General references

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.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain