Psalm 39:5

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Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one 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 years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope.

Job 9:25-26

Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

Job 14:1-2

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

Psalm 39:11

When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalm 90:4-5

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

Psalm 90:9-10

For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the Gentiles are as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and as less than nothing.

James 4:14

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are 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 thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope.

Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

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

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

As nothing

Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.

Verily

When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

All the Gentiles are as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and as less than nothing.

General references

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

The young men faint and are weary; the children stumble and fall;