Psalm 39:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 2 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication : give ear to my tears. Be not silent : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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

⁵ 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)

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

0 And blessing the king, he went out.

2 Samuel 19:34

9 And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own place.

Job 7:6

1 Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Psalm 144:4

1 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

Psalm 39:11

Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God : and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

Psalm 62:9

Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.

Psalm 89:47

Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 90:12

He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

8 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,

Isaiah 40:17

5 And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?

James 4:14

You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

2 Peter 3:8

7 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.