Psalm 39:5

God's Word

Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The length of my stay on earth has been 130 years. The years of my life have been few and difficult, fewer than my ancestors’ years.”

2 Samuel 19:34

Barzillai replied, “I don’t have much longer to live. I shouldn’t go with Your Majesty to Jerusalem.

Job 7:6

My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope.

Psalm 144:4

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:11

With stern warnings you discipline people for their crimes. Like a moth you eat away at what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is! Have you created Adam’s descendants for no reason?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number each of our days so that we may grow in wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Absolutely pointless!” says the spokesman. “Absolutely pointless! Everything is pointless.”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I turned to look at all that I had accomplished and all the hard work I had put into it, I saw that it was all pointless. ⌞It was like⌟ trying to catch the wind. I gained nothing ⌞from any of my accomplishments⌟ under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations amount to nothing in his presence. He considers them less than nothing and worthless.

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.

2 Peter 3:8

Dear friends, don’t ignore this fact: One day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.