1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope [of life].
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Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Job 8:9For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
Job 14:10But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
Psalms 39:13Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 29:11-23
David's Prayer to God; Sacrifices Offered. ( b. c. 1015.) 10 Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O Lord , is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord , and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine… Read the whole commentary →