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 the days of the years of my life been, and 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 you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in your 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 declines; and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
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Job 32:7
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.