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 pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is passed as a watch in the night.
Psalm 102:11
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.
General references
Job 32:7
for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom.