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 vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.
Psalm 39:5
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
Psalm 109:23
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 144:4
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Job 14:2
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
James 4:14
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

I am withered

Psalm 102:4
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
Isaiah 40:6
A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.
James 1:10
but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.
1 Peter 1:24
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,