Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Bible References

Days

Psalm 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
Numbers 14:29
In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:14
Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.

Years

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
Job 5:6
For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 14:1
Man, born of 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.

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:7
And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
1 Corinthians 10:5
yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.