A moment in scripture
Psalms 39:5
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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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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
- Psalms 39:4
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
- Psalms 39:6
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.
- Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.