Psalm 39:5

The Scriptures 1998

“See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai said to the sovereign, “How many are the days of my life, that I should go up with the sovereign to Yerushalayim?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Sons of Aḏ

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futility! Futility!” says Qoheleth. “Futility, futility, all is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.

James 4:14

when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה  one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.