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 come to their end without hope.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
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Job 32:7
I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'