Psalm 39:5

Good News Translation

How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.”

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai answered, “I don't have long to live; why should I go with Your Majesty to Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

My days pass by without hope, pass faster than a weaver's shuttle.

Psalm 144:4

We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

You punish our sins by your rebukes, and like a moth you destroy what we love. Indeed we are no more than a puff of wind!

Psalm 62:9

Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!

Psalm 90:12

Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

It is useless, useless, said the Philosopher. Life is useless, all useless.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard I had worked doing it, and I realized that it didn't mean a thing. It was like chasing the wind—of no use at all.

Isaiah 40:17

The nations are nothing at all to him.

James 4:14

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord's sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same.