Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:34And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Psalms 39:11When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalms 90:9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Psalms 144:4Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:2-7
Devout Reflections; Brevity and Vanity of Life. 1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 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 a… Read the whole commentary →