Psalm 39:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?

Job 7:6

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 39:11

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Psalm 89:47

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Psalm 90:12

So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

James 4:14

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

2 Peter 3:8

But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.