Psalm 90:12

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

Job 28:28

God said to us humans, “To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil.”

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how soon my life will end.”

Psalm 39:5

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,

Proverbs 16:16

It is better—much better—to have wisdom and knowledge than gold and silver.

Proverbs 22:17

Listen, and I will teach you what the wise have said. Study their teachings,

Proverbs 23:12

Pay attention to your teacher and learn all you can.

Proverbs 23:23

Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense—these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom and insight! Do not forget or ignore what I say.

Proverbs 4:7

Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever else you get, get insight.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is a party, because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead—and that is where you are going.

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work.

Deuteronomy 32:29

They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.