Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

Job 9:25-26

My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.

Job 14:1-2

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

Psalm 39:11

With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.

Psalm 90:4-5

In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.

Psalm 90:9-10

Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

I looked at all the works my hands accomplished. I saw everything I had worked to do. I saw that all was vanity and grasping for the wind. It was to no purpose for there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nothing! He regards them as worthless and less than nothing.

James 4:14

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 3:8

Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)

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Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Behold

Psalm 90:4
In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.
Job 9:25
My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.
Job 14:1
Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.
James 4:14
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

As nothing

Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?
2 Peter 3:8
Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)

Verily

Psalm 39:11
With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
Psalm 62:9
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
I looked at all the works my hands accomplished. I saw everything I had worked to do. I saw that all was vanity and grasping for the wind. It was to no purpose for there was no profit under the sun.
Isaiah 40:17
Before him all the nations are as nothing! He regards them as worthless and less than nothing.

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Isaiah 40:30
Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.