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
Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?
Job 4:19
How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities! saith the Proclaimer, vanity of vanities! all, is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the Proclaimer, all, is vanity.
His days
Psalm 102:11
My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.
Psalm 103:15
As for man, like grass, are his days, Like the blossom of the field, so, doth he blossom;
Psalm 109:23
As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;
2 Samuel 14:14
For, when we, die, we become as water poured on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, - therefore doth God not take away the life, but deviseth plans so as not to thrust out from him, a fugitive.
1 Chronicles 29:15
for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.
Job 8:9
For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
Ecclesiastes 8:13
but, well, shall it not be to the lawless man, neither shall he lengthen out his days like a shadow, - because he standeth not in awe before God.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities! saith the Proclaimer, vanity of vanities! all, is vanity.