Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
General references
Bible References
The years
Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 22:15
Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Psalm 55:23
But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not much wrong, nor be thou a fool. Why should thou die before thy time?
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?
General references
Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.