Psalm 39:5 - Tree of Life Version

⁵ “Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

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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.

Psalm 39:5 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

2 Samuel 19:34

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”

Job 7:6

My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and come to an end without hope.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

Remove Your scourge from me. I perish by the blow of Your hand.

Psalm 62:9

Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart in His presence. God is our refuge. Selah

Psalm 89:47

How long, Adonai, will You hide Yourself? Forever? Will Your fury keep burning like fire?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, so that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Futile! Futile! says Kohelet. Completely meaningless! Everything is futile!

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended to accomplish it, behold, it all was futile and chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before Him. By Him they are accounted null and void.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

2 Peter 3:8

But don’t forget this one thing, loved ones, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.