Psalm 39:6

Modern King James Version

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

Cross References

Job 14:1

Man born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 7:16

I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall no more see good.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 89:48

What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Proverbs 23:5

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Proverbs 27:24

For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments. For this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered silver and gold to myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got men singers and women singers for myself, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and very many wives.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

But those riches perish by evil use. And he brings forth a son, and nothing is in his hand.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Luke 12:26

If then you are not able to do even the least, why are you anxious about the rest?

Luke 12:29

And do not seek what you shall eat, nor what you shall drink, and stop being in anxiety.

1 Corinthians 7:31

And they who use this world are as not abusing it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

James 4:14

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your anxiety onto Him, for He cares for you.