Psalm 39:5

A Conservative Version

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Cross References

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 62:9

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

James 4:14

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

Psalm 39:11

When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

2 Peter 3:8

But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.