Psalm 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they are pushed up; together they are but a breath.
Cross References
Job 7:16
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 11:12
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Psalm 9:20
Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

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

Psalm 49:2
both low and high, rich and poor alike.

Psalm 89:47
Remember how short is my lifespan. For what futility You have created all men!

Psalm 116:11
In my alarm I said, "All men are liars!"

Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Futility of futilities," says the Teacher, "futility of futilities! Everything is futile!"

Isaiah 2:9
So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled--do not forgive them!

Isaiah 40:15
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Daniel 5:27
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

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Surely

Psalm 39:5, 11
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 . . .

1 Samuel 18:5, 7
So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people and of Saul's officers as well. . . .

1 Samuel 23:12, 19, 20
So David asked, "Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" "They will, " answered the LORD. . . .

2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Matthew 21:9
The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: "Hosanna to the Son of David!" "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Hosanna in the highest!"

John 19:15
At this, they shouted, "Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!" "Shall I crucify your King?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar, " replied the chief priests.

of high

Psalm 55:13, 14
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend. . . .

Psalm 118:9
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

1 Samuel 18:21-26
"I will give her to David, " Saul thought, "so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "For a second time now you can be my son-in-law." . . .

1 Samuel 26:21-25
Then Saul replied, "I have sinned. Come back, David, my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool! I have committed a grave error." . . .

2 Samuel 15:31
Now someone told David: "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." So David pleaded, "O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!"

Romans 3:4
Absolutely not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be justified in Your words, and prevail in Your judgments."

laid

Daniel 5:27
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

altogether.

Isaiah 40:15, 17
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust. . . .

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