Psalm 89:47 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Remember how short my time is: Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!

American Standard Version (1901)

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Common English Bible

Remember how short my life is! Have you created humans for no good reason?

Psalm 89:47 Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 7:7

Oh remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good.

Psalm 119:84

How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgement on them that persecute me?

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 79:5

How long, O LORD, wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.