Psalms 39:5New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Behold, You have made my days [as] handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; and mine age is as nothing before thee: surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah]
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Behold, thou hast made my days [as] a hand-breadth; and my age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
Darby's Translation (DBY 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.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee,—Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. [Selah.]
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, thou hast made my dayes [as] an hand breadth, and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state [is] altogether vanitie. Selah.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, thou hast given my days a limit; and mine age is as nothing before thee; verily all men stand as a mere breath.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before thee: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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. |
Behold,
x2009 (2009) Complementהִנֵּהhinneh{hin-nay'}
Prolonged for H2005; lo!.
thou hast made
5414 {5414} Primeנָתַןnathan{naw-than'}
A primitive root; to give, used with great latitude of application ( put, make, etc.).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
my days
3117 {3117} Primeיוֹםyowm{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
[ as] an handbreadth;
2947 {2947} Primeטֹפַחtephach{tay'-fakh}
From H2946; a spread of the hand, that is, a palm breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally a corbel (as a supporting palm).
and mine age
2465 {2465} Primeחֶלֶדcheled{kheh'-led}
From an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly; life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence the world (as transient).
[ is] as nothing
x369 (0369) Complementאַיִן'ayin{ah'-yin}
As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.
before
x5048 (5048) Complementנֶגֶדneged{neh'-ghed}
From H5046; a front, that is, part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually (adverbially, especially with preposition) over against or before.
thee: verily
x389 (0389) Complementאַךְ'ak{ak}
Akin to H0403; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only.
every
3605 {3605} Primeכֹּלkol{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
man
120 {0120} Primeאָדָם'adam{aw-dawm'}
From H0119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.).
at his best state
5324 {5324} Primeנָצַבnatsab{naw-tsab'}
A primitive root; to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively).
z8737 <8737> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 793
[ is] altogether
3605 {3605} Primeכֹּלkol{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
vanity.
1892 {1892} Primeהֶבֶלhebel{heh'-bel}
From H1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb.
Selà
סֶלָה.
5542 {5542} Primeסֶלָהcelah{seh'-law}
From H5541; suspension (of music), that is, pause. |
Psalms 39:5-6
_ _ His prayer is answered in his obtaining an impressive view of the vanity of the life of all men, and their transient state. Their pomp is a mere image, and their wealth is gathered they know not for whom. |
Psalms 39:5
Before thee — If compared with thee, and with thy everlasting duration. |
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 (e) vanity. Selah.
(e) Yet David offended in that he reasoned with God as though he were too severe toward his weak creature. |
- Behold:
Psalms 90:4-5 For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. ... Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
Psalms 90:9-10 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. ... 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.
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.
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25-26 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ... They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
Job 14:1-2 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble. ... He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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.
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- as nothing:
Psalms 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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- verily:
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.
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.
Psalms 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.
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.
Isaiah 40:17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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- at his best state:
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