1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.'
Job 8:9For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow —
Job 14:10But man dieth, and lieth low; yea, man perisheth, and where is he?
Psalms 39:13(39-14) Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'
Psalms 102:11(102-12) My days are like a lengthening shadow; and 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 →