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 they come to an end {without hope}.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Psalm 39:5
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like yesterday when it passes, or [like] a watch in the night.
Psalm 102:11
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
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Job 32:7
I thought, 'Let days speak, and let many years teach wisdom.'