Psalms 39:5

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.

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  • 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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    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

  • Ps 89:47-48
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  • Ps 39:6-7
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    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

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  • Ps 89:45
    74%

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  • Ps 4:2
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    2O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Surely 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.

  • Isa 40:17
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    17All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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    9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)

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

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    15[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • Ps 90:9-10
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    12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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    72%

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    2 verses
    72%

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    2 verses
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    71%

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    71%

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    70%

    25Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.

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