Verse 5

Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al together vanitie. Selah.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 As for the chyldren of men, they be onlye but vanitie, the chyldren of lordes be but a lye: vpon the wayghtes they be altogether lighter then vanitie in selfe.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne I say and but playne vanitie.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All people in comparison of hym are reckened as nothyng: yf they be compared with hym, lesse then nothyng, and as it that is not.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 And yet can not ye tel what shall happen on the morowe. For what thyng is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that appeareth for a litle tyme, and then he vanisheth away.
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Dearely beloued, be not ignoraunt of this one thyng, howe that one day is with the Lorde as a thousande yere, & a thousande yere as one day.
  • Ps 90:4-5 : 4 For a thousande yeres in thy syght are but as yestarday that is past: and as a watch in the nyght. 5 Thou makest them to flowe away, they are a sleepe: they be in the morning as an hearbe that groweth.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde. 10 The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength of nature men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Iacob sayd vnto Pharao, The dayes of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirtie yeres: Fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of ye lyfe of my fathers, in the dayes of theyr pilgrimage.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes are more swyft then a runner, they are gone & haue seene no good thing. 26 They are passed away as the shippes that be good vnder sayle, & as the eagle that fleeth to the pray.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie. 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah.