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 your 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 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.

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

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

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

Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

As nothing

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

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

Verily

When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt 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: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and worthless.

General references

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

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