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 go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
Psalm 39:5
Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.
Psalm 109:23
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 144:4
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
Job 14:2
He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For no one knows what is best for a person during his life -- during the few days of his fleeting life -- for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.
James 4:14
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

I am withered

Psalm 102:4
My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
Isaiah 40:6
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
James 1:10
But the rich person's pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.
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,

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