Psalm 39:5

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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.

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 thine eyes, are , As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or as a watch in the night.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.

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

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

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

Men who are not versed in the morrow - of what sort your life will be ; for ye are, a vapour - for a little, appearing, then, just disappearing!

As nothing

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

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

Verily

When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. Selah.

Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.

The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow.

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

When, I, looked upon all my works, which my hands had made, and on my toil, whereon I had toilsomely wrought, then lo! all, was vanity, and feeding on wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

All nations, are as nothing before him, - A thing of nought or a waste, are they accounted unto him?

General references

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

Youths both faint and grow weary, And, young warriors - they fall, they fall;