KJV 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.
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Psalm 39:5
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.
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BSB 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
WEB World English Bible
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
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
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 39
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
5 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.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
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הִנֵּ֤הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdטְפָח֨וֹת׀H2947 · te.phachhandbreadthנָ֘תַ֤תָּהH5414 · na.tanto give: giveיָמַ֗יH3117 · yomdayוְחֶלְדִּ֣יH2465 · che.ledlifetime/worldכְאַ֣יִןH369 · a.yinnothingנֶגְדֶּ֑ךָH5048 · ne.gedbeforeאַ֥ךְH389 · akhsurelyכָּֽל־H3605 · kolallהֶ֥בֶלH1892 · he.velvanityכָּל־H3605 · kolallאָ֝דָ֗םH120 · a.dammanנִצָּ֥בH5324 · na.tsavto standסֶֽלָה׃H5542 · se.lahSelah
Cross-references
Psalm 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.Psalm 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?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.Psalm 90:9-10For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].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.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.Job 14:1-2Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.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.Psalm 90:4-5For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.Job 9:25-26Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.2 Peter 3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.Isaiah 40:17All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.
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