Psalm 39:5

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Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Job 9:25-26

"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

Job 14:1-2

"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

Psalm 39:11

When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 90:4-5

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

Psalm 90:9-10

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

James 4:14

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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Summary

Psalm 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.

Behold

As nothing

Psalm 89:47

2 Peter 3:8

Verily

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Isaiah 40:30

Bible References

Behold

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

"Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

As nothing

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Verily

When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

General references

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;