Psalms 62:9

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.

Cross References (19)

  • Psalms 39:5 (12)

    You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists

  • Isaiah 40:15 (11)

    Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islan

  • Isaiah 40:17 (11)

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

  • Psalms 118:9 (7)

    It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

  • 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

  • 1 Samuel 18:21–26 (4)

    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be aga

  • 2 Samuel 15:6 (4)

    Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of I

  • Romans 3:4 (4)

    Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak a

  • 1 Samuel 23:19–20 (4)

    Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the

  • 1 Samuel 23:12 (4)

    So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.

  • 2 Samuel 15:31 (4)

    Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the

  • Psalms 116:11 (4)

    In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”

  • 1 Samuel 18:5 (4)

    So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was

  • 1 Samuel 26:21–25 (3)

    Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my

  • Matthew 21:9 (3)

    The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He w

  • 1 Samuel 18:7 (3)

    And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

  • John 19:15 (3)

    At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have

  • Daniel 5:27 (3)

    TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

  • Psalms 55:13–14 (2)

    But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.