Psalm 39:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage 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 pilgrimage.

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

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

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

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

As nothing

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Verily

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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

General references

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

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: