Psalm 62:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Men of low degree [in the social scale] are emptiness (futility, a breath) and men of high degree [in the same scale] are a lie and a delusion. In the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Common English Bible

⁹ Human beings are nothing but a breath. Human beings are nothing but lies. They don’t even register on a scale; taken all together they are lighter than a breath!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me.

Psalm 62:9 Cross References

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Isaiah 40:17

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

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Psalm 118:9

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.

Psalm 39:11

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Psalm 116:11

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahith´ophel is among the conspirators with Ab´salom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahith´ophel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 15:6

And on this manner did Ab´salom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Ab´salom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

1 Samuel 23:12

Then said David, Will the men of Kei´lah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the Lord said, They will deliver thee up.

1 Samuel 18:5

And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

John 19:15

But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

Matthew 21:9

And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

Daniel 5:27

Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

1 Samuel 18:7

And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

1 Samuel 1:15

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

2 Kings 19:14

And Hezeki´ah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezeki´ah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

Psalm 46:2

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Psalm 71:7

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Psalm 142:3

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

Isaiah 26:4

Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.