Psalm 39:5
New International Version
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.
Psalm 39:5
King James Version
5 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.
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Psalm 89:47
New International Version
47 Remember how fleeting is my life.(A)
For what futility you have created all humanity!
Psalm 89:47
King James Version
47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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Psalm 62:9
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Psalm 62:9
King James Version
9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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James 4:14
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14 Why, you 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.(A)
James 4:14
King James Version
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
King James Version
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 144:4
King James Version
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Psalm 90:9-10
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Psalm 90:9-10
King James Version
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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Isaiah 40:17
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Isaiah 40:17
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17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
New International Version
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(A)
Ecclesiastes 1:2
King James Version
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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Psalm 90:4-5
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Psalm 90:4-5
King James Version
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
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Psalm 39:11
King James Version
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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Job 14:1-2
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14 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Job 9:25-26
King James Version
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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