Psalms 39:5

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.

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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; why have you made all men in vain?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled 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 by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 But, beloved, do not be 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 your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. 5 You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to 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 runner: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They pass away like swift ships: like the eagle hastening to the prey.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

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  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that you make account of him!

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  • Ps 39:6-7
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    6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

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  • Ps 39:10-11
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    10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

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  • Job 10:5
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    5Are Your days as the days of man? Are Your years as man's days,

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    5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits that he cannot pass;

  • Job 7:16-17
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    16I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

    17What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

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    45The days of his youth you have shortened; you have covered him with shame. Selah.

  • Ps 4:2
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    2O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after lies? Selah.

  • Ps 62:9
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  • Isa 40:17
    74%

    17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

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

  • Job 7:6
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    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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    15As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

  • Ps 90:9-10
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    9For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

    10The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Ps 102:23-24
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    23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

    24I said, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; your years are throughout all generations."

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

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  • Ps 31:10
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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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    22Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for how much is he to be accounted of?

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    8Your hands have made and fashioned me together all around; yet You destroy me.

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    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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

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    72%

    4His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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    2 verses
    72%

    3You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

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    71%

    12Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

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    71%

    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

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    71%

    25Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

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  • Eccl 7:15
    71%

    15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Job 6:11
    71%

    11What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

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    2 verses
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    1Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Job 27:12
    71%

    12Behold, you yourselves have seen it; why then are you altogether vain?

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 1:14
    71%

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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    25Every man may see it; man may behold it from afar.

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    70%

    8Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.