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 Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]! American Standard Version (1901) Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah Common English Bible You’ve made my days so short; my lifetime is like nothing in your eyes. Yes, a human life is nothing but a puff of air! Selah Catholic Public Domain Version Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies. |
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.
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?
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope
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
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.
O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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.
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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.
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.