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 were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thine eyes as the day of yesterday, for it shall pass away, and watches in the night.
Psalm 102:11
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
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Job 32:7
I said, days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make known wisdom.