Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Swifter
They flee away
Bible References
Swifter
Job 7:6
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
Esther 8:14
So the couriers, who were mounted on the royal relay horses, left quickly, urged on by the king’s command; and the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa [the capital].
They flee away
Psalm 39:5
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
Psalm 89:47
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
Psalm 90:9
For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.
For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.
James 4:14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].