Psalm 39:5

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

2 Samuel 19:34

And Barzillai said unto the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 39:11

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us an heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

2 Peter 3:8

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