Psalm 39:5
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
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- Psalm 89:47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalm 144:4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalm 62:9 Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.