Psalms 39:5

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

Cross References (15)

  • Psalms 144:4 (10)

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

  • Psalms 89:47 (10)

    Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

  • Psalms 62:9 (9)

    Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

  • Psalms 90:9–10 (9)

    For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11 (7)

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything

  • James 4:14 (6)

    You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and th

  • Psalms 39:11 (6)

    You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a va

  • Job 14:1–2 (6)

    “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

  • Psalms 90:4–5 (5)

    For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

  • Job 9:25–26 (4)

    My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

  • Job 7:6 (4)

    My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

  • Genesis 47:9 (4)

    “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years

  • 2 Peter 3:8 (3)

    Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand year

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2 (3)

    “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

  • Isaiah 40:17 (3)

    All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.