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Psalms 39:5

Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.

Literal Standard Version

In The 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.

In Context

4“Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, || And the measure of my days—what it [is],” || I know how frail I [am].

6Only, each habitually walks in an image, || Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, || He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:34And Barzillai says to the king, “How many [are] the days of the years of my life, that I go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a runner, || They have fled, they have not seen good,

Psalms 39:11With reproofs against iniquity, || You have corrected man, || And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, || Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.

Psalms 89:47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?

Psalms 90:9For all our days pined away in Your wrath, || We consumed our years as a meditation.

Psalms 144:4Man has been like a breath, || His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

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 →

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