Psalm 89:47 “Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have crea…”

Psalm 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

World English Bible

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

American Standard Version

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Geneva Bible 1599

Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

Darby Translation

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

Young's Literal Translation

Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Bible in Basic English

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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Cross references

“Remember”

Job 7:7 Job 10:9 Psalm 119:84 Psalm 39:5 Psalm 39:6 Job 9:25

Job 7:7 · BSB

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 10:9 · BSB

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Psalm 119:84 · BSB

How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalm 39:6 · BSB

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Job 9:25 · BSB

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

“wherefore”

Job 14:1 Psalm 144:4 James 4:14

Job 14:1 · BSB

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Psalm 144:4 · BSB

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

James 4:14 · BSB

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

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