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Psalm 39:5

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths,

and my lifetime as nothing before You.

Truly each man at his best

exists as but a breath.

Selah

Psalm 39:5 BSB

Psalm 39:5 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 89:47 (10 votes) and Psalm 144:4 (10 votes). 32 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 47 to 2 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Psalm 39:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 89:4710 votes

    Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

  2. Psalm 144:410 votes

    Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  3. Psalm 62:99 votes

    Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

  4. Psalm 90:9–109 votes

    For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

  5. Ecclesiastes 2:118 votes

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

  6. Psalm 39:117 votes

    You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

  7. Job 14:1–26 votes

    “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

  8. James 4:146 votes

    You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

  9. Psalm 90:4–55 votes

    For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night. You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

  10. Genesis 47:94 votes

    “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

  11. Job 7:64 votes
  12. Job 9:25–264 votes
  13. Ecclesiastes 1:23 votes
  14. Isaiah 40:173 votes
  15. 2 Peter 3:83 votes

Which verses point to Psalm 39:5?

The 10 strongest of 32.