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Psalms 39:5 (KJV)

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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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.
2 Samuel 19:34 - And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
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 14:1 - Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
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 89:47 - Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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.
Psalms 90:9 - For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
Psalms 90:12 - So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.
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.
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.
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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