Psalms 39:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah”
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“You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age <FI>is<Fi> as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity <FI>is<Fi> every man set up. Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 39:5 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- 2 Samuel 19:34But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 90:4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
- Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Isaiah 40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- 2 Peter 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
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