Psalms 39:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state{H8737)} is altogether vanity. Selah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הוֹדִ֘יעֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ קִצִּ֗י וּמִדַּ֣ת יָמַ֣י מַה־הִ֑יא אֵ֝דְעָ֗ה מֶה־חָדֵ֥ל אָֽנִי׃

Transliteration

hôdîʿēnî YHWH qiṣṣî and-middat yāmay what-hîʾ ʾēdəʿāh what-ḥādēl ʾānî

Grammar Details

*hôdîʿēnî*: verb, hiphil imperative masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - make me know
*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
*qiṣṣî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my end
*middat*: noun, feminine singular construct with prefixed conjunction 'wə' - and the measure of
*yāmay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my days
*hîʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person feminine singular with interrogative 'mah' - what is it
*ʾēdəʿāh*: verb, qal imperfect 1st person singular cohortative - let me know
*ḥādēl*: adjective with interrogative 'meh' - how transient/frail
*ʾānî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I (am)

Word Meanings

*hôdîʿēnî*: cause me to know/make me know/inform me
*qiṣṣî*: my end/limit/boundary
*middat*: measure/extent/proportion
*yāmay*: my days/lifetime
*ʾēdəʿāh*: let me know/understand/perceive
*ḥādēl*: transient/frail/fleeting/ceasing

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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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{H8800)} in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember{H8798)} how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made{H8804)} 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{H8799)}, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}.
Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days are passed away{H8804)} in thy wrath: we spend{H8765)} 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{H8804)}, and we fly away{H8799)}.
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{H8803)} to consume away{H8686)} like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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Ps 39:4
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47Remember{H8798)} how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made{H8804)} all men in vain?
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Ps 39:6-7
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6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted{H8799)} in vain: he heapeth up{H8799)} riches, and knoweth{H8799)} not who shall gather{H8802)} them.
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Ps 62:9
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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.
Job 8:9
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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.
Ps 103:15
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15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Ps 90:9-10
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9For all our days are passed away{H8804)} in thy wrath: we spend{H8765)} our years as a tale that is told.
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3Thou turnest{H8686)} man to destruction; and sayest{H8799)}, Return{H8798)}, ye children of men.
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10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Job 9:25
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Eccl 7:15
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15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Job 6:11
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11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 14:1-2
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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.
Job 27:12
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12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Eccl 2:23
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23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Eccl 1:14
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Eccl 12:8
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