Psalms 39:5. Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
How short is our life! It is just a span, and no more,
Psalms 39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee:
What multitudes of generations of men have come and gone! An angel might have cried, long before, "Man is but a thing of yesterday compared with the eternal God." God created the first star that twinkled out of the primeval darkness. "The everlasting hills," as we call them, are but infants of a day compared to him; therefore, man may truly say, "Mine age is as nothing before thee."
Psalms 39:5. Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
The best man is only man at the best, and when he is at his best, he is nothing but vanity. It is strange that he should get vain of his best state, when his best is only vanity.
Psalms 39:5. Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
How short is our life! It is just a span, and no more,
Psalms 39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee:
What multitudes of generations of men have come and gone! An angel might have cried, long before, "Man is but a thing of yesterday compared with the eternal God." God created the first star that twinkled out of the primeval darkness. "The everlasting hills," as we call them, are but infants of a day compared to him; therefore, man may truly say, "Mine age is as nothing before thee."
Psalms 39:5. Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
The best man is only man at the best, and when he is at his best, he is nothing but vanity. It is strange that he should get vain of his best state, when his best is only vanity.