Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
General references
Bible References
Days
Psalm 90:7
Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
Numbers 14:29
Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness -- all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.
Numbers 26:64
But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:14
Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.
Years
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."
Job 5:6
For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
Job 14:1
"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Futile! Futile!" laments the Teacher, "Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!"
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Absolutely futile!" laments the Teacher, "All of these things are futile!"
General references
Ecclesiastes 4:7
So I again considered another futile thing on earth:
1 Corinthians 10:5
But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.