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Psa 39:5Behold, 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.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

Behold   Psa 90:4,5,9,10; Gen 47:9; Job 7:6; Job 9:25,26; Job 14:1,2; Jam 4:14
as nothing   Psa 89:47; 2Pe 3:8
verily   Psa 39:11; Psa 62:9; Psa 144:4; Ecc 1:2; Ecc 2:11; Isa 40:17
at his best state   Heb. settled.
Correlating Passages
Behold
Psa 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
Psa 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
Psa 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
Psa 90:10 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.
Gen 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 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
Job 14:1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Jam 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.
as nothing
Psa 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
2Pe 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.
verily
Psa 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.
Psa 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.
Psa 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecc 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.
Ecc 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.
Isa 40:17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 39:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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