Psalm 39:5 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁵ Lo, thou my days an handbreadth mad'st; mine age is in thine eye As nothing: sure each man at best is wholly vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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

⁵ 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)

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

Psalm 39:5 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity; his days, as shadows, pass away.

Psalm 39:11

When with rebukes thou dost correct man for iniquity, Thou wastes his beauty like a moth: sure each man's vanity.

Psalm 62:9

Surely mean men are vanity, and great men are a lie; In balance laid, they wholly are more light than vanity.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, Lord, how short a time I shall on earth remain: O wherefore is it so that thou has made all men in vain?

Psalm 90:12

So is thy wrath: Lord, teach thou us our end in mind to bear; And so to count our days, that we our hearts may still apply To learn thy wisdom and thy truth, that we may live thereby.