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 as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.

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

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

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

ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

As nothing

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Verily

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

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up 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 labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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

General references

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

Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;