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 flying back and forth. They end without hope.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
1 Chronicles 29:15
You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.
Psalm 39:5
Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.
Psalm 90:4
In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a mere 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.'