Psalms 39:5
"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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- Psalms 144:4
"Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 89:47
"Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 62:9
"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."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 90:9
"For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 39:11
"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."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:11
"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."
Read in chapter → - Job 14:1
"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble."
Read in chapter → - James 4:14
"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."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 90:4
"For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 47:9
"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
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