Psalm 39:5

New English Translation

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

2 Samuel 19:34

Barzillai replied to the king, “How many days do I have left to my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Psalm 39:11

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Psalm 62:9

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Psalm 89:47

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: “All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth.”

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

James 4:14

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

2 Peter 3:8

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.