5Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.


In Context

2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,

4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.

Psalm 39:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

39:5You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath. Selah

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

39:5Behold thou hast made my days measurable : and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity : every man living.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

39:5Behold, 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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

39:5Behold, 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

39:5Behold, 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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

39:5Behold, 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

39:5Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.| Selah.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

39:5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.