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 Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

As nothing

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;

Verily

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

General references

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,