Psalm 39:5

American King James Version (1999)

Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said to the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

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

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 39:11

When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

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.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

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

James 4:14

Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.