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, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before 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, 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 shaken off like the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished one be not expelled from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: 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 the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.