Psalm 39:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Cross References

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Job 7:6

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

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

2 Peter 3:8

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

2 Samuel 19:34

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

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.