Psalm 39:5

New King James Version

Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. 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; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

“My days are swifter 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 iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapor.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

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

James 4:14

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

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.