Psalm 39:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Shortness of Human Life
4 Lord, help me understand my end.
What is the limit of my days?
Let me know how fleeting I am.
5 See, you have cut short my days.[a]
My brief time before you is like nothing.
Indeed, every person, even at his best,
is just a puff of air.[b] Interlude
6 A man flickers like a mirage.
He really has no more effect than a breeze.[c]
He piles things up, never knowing who will get them.
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:5 Literally made them a few handbreadths. A handbreadth is about three inches.
- Psalm 39:5 Or a vapor that vanishes
- Psalm 39:6 Or he is all worked up for nothing
Psalm 39:4-6
New International Version
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.
Psalm 39:4-6
King James Version
4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
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 vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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