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 swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
1 Chronicles 29:15
for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
Psalm 39:5
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.
Psalm 102:11
My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
Psalm 144:4
Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.
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Job 32:7
I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.