Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

General references

Bible References

In honour

Psalm 49:20
Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Psalm 82:7
nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince."
James 1:10
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Beasts

Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

General references

Psalm 94:11
the LORD--knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.

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