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 brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.
Numbers 14:29
your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,
Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:14
And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

Years

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
Job 5:6
For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
Job 14:1
"Man who is born of a woman is few of 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.

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:7
Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
1 Corinthians 10:5
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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