17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

5 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Hope
• Sovereignty of God
• Wisdom

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Chr 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
• 1Cor 7:31 — And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
• 1John 2:17 — And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 1John 2:17 — And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• 1Pet 4:7 — But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 2Sam 19:34 — And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
• Acts 20:22 — And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
• Eccl 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
• Gen 27:2 — And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
• Gen 47:9 — And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
• Isa 2:22 — Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
• Isa 38:12 — Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
• Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Job 7:7 — O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
• Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
• Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
• Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
• Luke 12:20 — But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
• Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
• Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
• Ps 39:6 — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Ps 78:39 — For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
• Ps 89:47 — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
• Ps 89:47 — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
• Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• Ps 90:10 — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
• Ps 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
• Ps 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
• Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.