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 were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.
Esther 8:14
The runners riding the courser, the mules, went forth, being hastened and impelled by the word of the king. And the edict was given in Shushan the fortress.

They flee away

Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 89:47
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
Psalm 90:9
For all our days turned away in thy wrath: we finished our years as a meditation
James 4:14
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)