Psalms 89:47

American Standard Version (1901)

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [ 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  • Ps 119:84 : 84 How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good, 26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 39:4-7
    4 verses
    81%

    4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [

    6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

    7And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.

  • Ps 89:48-49
    2 verses
    80%

    48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {{Selah

    49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

  • Ps 89:45-46
    2 verses
    78%

    45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. {{Selah

    46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

    4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    76%

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Job 7:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

    7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

  • Job 7:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

    10The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

  • Job 17:1
    74%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Job 10:20
    74%

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Ps 90:3
    74%

    3Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

    24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

  • Job 6:11
    74%

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? [How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? {{Selah

  • Job 10:5
    73%

    5Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

  • Job 17:11
    73%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • Job 7:1
    72%

    1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • Isa 38:10
    72%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • Job 10:9
    72%

    9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

  • Job 14:10
    72%

    10But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • Lam 5:20
    72%

    20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?

  • Job 10:18
    72%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • Job 7:20
    72%

    20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

  • Ps 13:1
    72%

    1[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

  • Job 9:29
    71%

    29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

  • Ps 39:11
    71%

    11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. {{Selah

  • Ps 90:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

    13Return, O Jehovah; How long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Ps 146:4
    71%

    4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Ps 88:14
    71%

    14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • Ps 8:4
    71%

    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  • Eccl 6:11
    71%

    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

  • Job 18:3
    71%

    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • Job 20:4
    71%

    4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,