Psalm 39:5 - The Scriptures 1998

“See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

Common English Bible

You’ve made my days so short; my lifetime is like nothing in your eyes. Yes, a human life is nothing but a puff of air! Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

Psalm 39:5 Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai said to the sovereign, “How many are the days of my life, that I should go up with the sovereign to Yerushalayim?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Sons of Aḏ

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futility! Futility!” says Qoheleth. “Futility, futility, all is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.

James 4:14

when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה  one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.