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 a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalm 62:9
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?
Job 4:19
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
All is but vanity - sayeth the preacher - all is but plain vanity.
His days
Psalm 102:11
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 103:15
that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.
Psalm 109:23
I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and perish as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again: and God will not take away the life, but find the means that the banished be not utterly expelled from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
Again, as for the ungodly, it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his days: but even as a shadow, so shall he be that feareth not God.
General references
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.