Psalms 39:6

+ 39:6 Heb 10:5-6 Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number. 1

7Then I said, Behold, I + 39:7 Or, am come. come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me, 1

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Cross References

Job 7:7Remember then that my life is breath, and my eye shall not yet again see good.

Job 14:1For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath.

Psalms 49:10For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. 1

Psalms 127:2You shall eat the + 127:2 Alex. fruits of your labors. labors of your hands: blessed are you, and it shall be well with you. 1

Proverbs 13:22A good man shall inherit children's children; and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.

Proverbs 27:24For a man has not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.

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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