Psalm 39:6-7

What Is the Measure of My Days?

6 Surely a man e goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing 1 they are in turmoil;
man f heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

7 "And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
g My hope is in you.

  1. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 7:31
    And those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
    James 4:14
    Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 49:10
    For he sees that even the wise die; the fool an...
    Job 27:16 - 17
    Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up...
    Luke 12:20
    But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your sou...
    Ecclesiastes 2:18
    I hated all my toil in which I toil under the s...
    Ecclesiastes 2:21
    Because sometimes a person who has toiled with ...
    Ecclesiastes 2:26
    For to the one who pleases him God has given wi...
    Jeremiah 17:11
    Like the partridge that gathers a brood that sh...
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 38:15
    But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
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