Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
His days
General references
Bible References
Man
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 14:1
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.
His days
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 8:9
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.