Psalms 39:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ Behold thou hast made my days old; and mine existence is as nothing before thee. The universe; every man living is vanity.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the life of my fathers which they sojourned.

⁶ Though my life is swifter than a word; yet it is destroyed with vain hope.

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a courier. They are gone without being perceived. ²⁶ Is there any track left by ships in their passage? Or of an eagle flying in pursuit of its prey?

¹ He who is born of a woman waxeth old like a leathern bag: or like a garment which is moth eaten; for he is mortal, short lived and full of disquiet: ² or like a flower which fell when in bloom. He glideth away indeed like a shadow and can make no stay.

¹¹ With rebukes thou hast corrected man for iniquity; and caused his life to waste like a spider. Still every man troubleth himself in vain.

⁹ But as for the vain sons of men; the lying sons of men; Even in an unfair balance they are altogether vanity.

⁴⁷ Remember what my being is. Hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?

⁴ Since in thy sight a thousand years are but as yesterday which is past; or as a watch in the night: ⁵ shall these trifling years of theirs be as if in the morning, a green herb passed away?

⁹ Because all our days have fallen short; and we have failed by thine indignation; our years have exercised themselves like a spider. ¹⁰ The days of these years of ours are seventy years: and if by reason of strength they be eighty years; still the surplus of them is labour and sorrow. Because gentleness hath come upon us: let us, therefore,

⁴ Man is like vanity, his days glide away like a shadow.

² Vanity of vanities, said the preacher. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.

¹¹ therefore I looked back on all the works which my hands had done, and on the labour with which I had toiled to execute them; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there is no lasting advantage under the sun.

¹⁷ and all the nations are as nothing and reckoned as nothing:

¹⁴ when you do not know what will be the result of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth.

⁸ Now let not this one thing, my beloved, escape you, That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.