Psalm 39:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. 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

Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, 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 shadow that passes away.

Psalm 39:11

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Psalm 62:9

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

James 4:14

Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

2 Peter 3:8

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