Psalm 39:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only a hundred and thirty 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.”

2 Samuel 19:34

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

Job 7:6

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

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:11

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

Psalm 62:9

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

Psalm 89:47

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

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Isaiah 40:17

God thinks of the nations as far less than nothing.

James 4:14

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.

2 Peter 3:8

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