Psalm 39:5 - English Standard Version 2016 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah Matoleo zaidiKing 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 to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.