Psalm 39:5

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai will say to the king, According to what the days of the years of my life, that I shall go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.

Psalm 144:4

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

Psalm 39:11

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

Psalm 89:47

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

Psalm 90:12

To number our days so make known, and we shall bring the heart to wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations as nothing before him; they were reckoned to him from nothing, and vanity.

James 4:14

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)

2 Peter 3:8

And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.