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

Years

Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Job 5:6
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 14:1
Man, that is born of a 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
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
1 Corinthians 10:5
Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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