Psalms 39:5
LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
KJV1611 – Modern English
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Behold, thou hast made{H5414} my days{H3117} [as] handbreadths;{H2947} And my life-time{H2465} is as nothing before thee: Surely every{H3605} man{H120} at his best estate{H5324} is altogether{H3605} vanity.{H1892} {H5542}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Behold, thou hast made{H5414}{(H8804)} my days{H3117} as an handbreadth{H2947}; and mine age{H2465} is as nothing before thee: verily every{H3605} man{H120} at his best state{H5324}{H8737)} is altogether{H3605} vanity{H1892}. Selah{H5542}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
LORDE, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certified what I wante.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
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.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.
American Standard Version (1901)
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
American Standard Version (1901)
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 [
Bible in Basic English (1941)
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
World English Bible (2000)
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
Referenced Verses
- Ps 62:9 : 9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.
- Ps 89:47 : 47 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?
- Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Eccl 1:2 : 2 “Utterly meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
- Eccl 2:11 : 11 Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, behold, everything was meaningless—a chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Isa 40:17 : 17 Before Him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing.
- Jas 4:14 : 14 Why, you 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 Pet 3:8 : 8 But do not let this one thing escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
- Ps 90:4-5 : 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night. 5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning—
- Ps 90:9-9 : 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob replied to Pharaoh, 'The days of my sojourning have been one hundred thirty years. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not compare to the years of the lives of my fathers during their sojourning.'
- Job 7:6 : 6 My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
- Job 9:25-26 : 25 My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away and do not see any good. 26 They pass by like reed boats, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
- Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble. 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.
- Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
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