Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Bible References

Swifter

Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Esther 8:14
So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

They flee away

Psalm 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Psalm 89:47
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
James 4:14
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain