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 gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 62:9
Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.
Psalm 89:47
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
Job 4:19
Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.
Job 14:1
Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.
His days
Psalm 102:11
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
Psalm 103:15
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
Psalm 109:23
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Job 8:9
(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Ecclesiastes 8:13
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.