Psalm 39:5
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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.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
In other translations
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.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
Hebrew words
הִנֵּהhinehhere!H2009טְפָחוֹת׀tefachothandbreadthsH2947נָתַתָּהnatatahyou have madeH5414יָמַיyamaidays myH3117וְחֶלְדִּיvecheldiand lifespan myH2465כְאַיִןkhe'ayin[is] like nothingH369נֶגְדֶּךָnegdekhabefore youH5048אַךְ'akh[is] onlyH389כָּל־kal-allH3605הֶבֶלhevelvanityH1892כָּל־kol-allH3605אָדָם'adamhumankindH120נִצָּבnitzav[which] standsH5324סֶלָה׃selahSelahH5542
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Psalm 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalm 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalm 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 90:9-109 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The 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.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.Yet 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.
- Psalm 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- James 4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.You 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.
- Job 14:1-21 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. 2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Psalm 90:4-54 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night. 5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
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