Psalm 39:5

Modern English Version

Behold, You have made my days as a few handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man at his best is as a mere breath.”    Selah

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Samuel 19:34

Barzillai said to the king, “How many days are left in my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

“My days fly more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

When with rebukes You correct man for sin, You consume like a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is mere vapor.   Selah

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are but a vapor; men of high degree are a lie; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than vapor.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have You created all the sons of men?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says Qoheleth, “vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I turned to all the work that my hands had done, and all the labor in which I had toiled doing it; and again, all of it was vanity and chasing the wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as one thousand years, and one thousand years as one day.