Psalms 39:5

Human life is as short as a handbreadth and as fleeting as a breath. Every person's days are vanishingly brief before God.

Cross-references · 15

• Ps 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
• Ps 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Ps 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Ps 90:9–10For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
• Eccl 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
• Ps 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Jas 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Job 14:1–2“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Ps 90:4–5For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
• Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
• Gen 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
• Job 9:25–26My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
• Eccl 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
• Isa 40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
• 2 Pet 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

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