Psalm 39:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ “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

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.

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.