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Psalms 39:5
Psalms 39:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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Psalms 39:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 90:4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
Job 9:26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
2 Peter 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
Ecclesiastes 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Isaiah 40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.