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Psalm 39:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

You made my life short, so brief that the time means nothing to you. “Human life is but a breath,

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We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.

Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?

We humans are only a breath; none of us are truly great. All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.

Then I thought about everything I had done, including the hard work, and it was simply chasing the wind. Nothing on earth is worth the trouble.

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.

You punish us severely because of our sins. Like a moth, you destroy what we treasure most. We are as frail as a breath.

and my days are running out quicker than the thread of a fast-moving needle.

God thinks of the nations as far less than nothing.

Nothing makes sense! Everything is nonsense. I have seen it all— nothing makes sense!

Jacob answered, “I have lived only 130 years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

Dear friends, don't forget that for the Lord one day is the same as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years is the same as one day.

Barzillai answered: Your Majesty, why should I go to Jerusalem? I don't have much longer to live.

Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.




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