Psalms 39:5 Cross References

Psalms 39:5

5: My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath."

Psalms 62:9

  1. From the greatest to the lowliest--all are nothing in his sight. If you weigh them on the scales, they are lighter than a puff of air.

Psalms 89:47

  1. Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!

James 4:14

  1. How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For your life is like the morning fog--it's here a little while, then it's gone.

Psalms 144:4

  1. For we are like a breath of air; our days are like a passing shadow.

Psalms 90:9

  1. We live our lives beneath your wrath. We end our lives with a groan.
  2. Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

  1. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Job 9:25

  1. "My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away, filled with tragedy.
  2. It disappears like a swift boat, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

Job 7:6

  1. "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

Psalms 39:11

  1. When you discipline people for their sins, their lives can be crushed like the life of a moth. Human existence is as frail as breath.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

  1. "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless!"

Isaiah 40:17

  1. The nations of the world are as nothing to him. In his eyes they are less than nothing--mere emptiness and froth.

Psalms 90:4

  1. For you, a thousand years are as yesterday! They are like a few hours!
  2. You sweep people away like dreams that disappear or like grass that springs up in the morning.

Job 14:1

  1. "How frail is humanity! How short is life, and how full of trouble!
  2. Like a flower, we blossom for a moment and then wither. Like the shadow of a passing cloud, we quickly disappear.

Genesis 47:9

  1. Jacob replied, "I have lived for 130 hard years, but I am still not nearly as old as many of my ancestors."

2 Peter 3:8

  1. But you must not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
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