Psalm 39:6

A Conservative Version

Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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--

1 Corinthians 7:31

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

1 Peter 5:7

having cast all your concern upon him, because he cares for you.

Luke 12:29

And do not seek what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, and do not be unsettled.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of men, [and] a wife and wives.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

1 Peter 1:24

Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,

James 5:3

Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.

Proverbs 27:24

For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?

Proverbs 23:5

Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

Job 7:7

O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

Job 7:16

I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

Job 14:1

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalm 89:48

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Psalm 144:4

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

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Luke 12:26

If then ye are not able to do even the least, why are ye anxious about the rest?