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 burned up by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are 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, who have murmured against Me,
Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:14
And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years; until the end of all the generation. The men of war were destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.

Years

Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.
Job 5:6
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up 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, 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
And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.