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, seeing that is passed as a watch in the night.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

As nothing

O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?

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

Verily

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.

All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun.

All people in comparison of him are reckoned as nothing, yea vain vanity and emptiness.

General references

All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

Children are weary and faint, and the strongest men fall: