Psalms 39:5

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
  • Ps 90:4-5 : 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • 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 hasteth to the prey.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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