Psalms 39:5

What does Psalms 39:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 39:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age <FI>is<Fi> as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity <FI>is<Fi> every man set up. Selah.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Context

v.4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

v.5This passage

v.6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 40:17

    All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11

    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Genesis 47:9

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  • Job 14:1

    Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • 2 Peter 3:8

    But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2

    Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

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