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

In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.

Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

As nothing

Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?

Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)

Verily

With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

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

I looked at all the works my hands accomplished. I saw everything I had worked to do. I saw that all was vanity and grasping for the wind. It was to no purpose for there was no profit under the sun.

Before him all the nations are as nothing! He regards them as worthless and less than nothing.

General references

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

Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.