Psalm 39:5

New International Version

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

Job 7:6

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

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:11

When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

James 4:14

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.