Verse 5

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.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lorde, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day.
  • Ps 90:4-5 : 4 For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, & as a watch in the night. 5 Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought. 10 The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth & thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. 26 They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.
  • Job 14:1-2 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble. 2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.