Psalms 39:5
See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: Selah
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In Context
4“Teach me, O Lord, my end, and the sum of my days what it is. Let me know how transient I am.
Cross References
Psalms 39:11When you rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they tresure. Everyone is only a breath. Selah
Psalms 89:47Remember, Lord, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people.
Psalms 90:9For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Psalms 144:4They are like a breath, their days as a shadow that passes.
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 →