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 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 62:9
Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?
Job 4:19
How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the 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 Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith 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 an open flower of the field, so he blossoms.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no other hope.
Job 8:9
for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
but it shall never be well with the wicked, neither shall his days be prolonged, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before the presence of God.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.