Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Bible References

My days

Psalm 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as in a hearth.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Job 14:2
He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?
James 4:14
and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

I am withered

Psalm 102:4
My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread.
Isaiah 40:6
The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field:
James 1:10
and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,