Psalms 39:6

Overview - Psalms 39
David's care of this thoughts.
The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life;
the reverence of God's judgments,
10 and prayer, are his bridles of impatience.
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Psalms 39:6  (King James Version)
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
 


a vain shew
Hebrew an image.
There is but the semblance of being: he appeareth for a little, and then vanisheth.
1 Corinthians 7:31 ; James 4:14

surely
Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 2:17 Ecclesiastes 2:18 Ecclesiastes 2:20 Ecclesiastes 2:21 Ecclesiastes 4:7 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Ecclesiastes 6:11 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 12:8 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Isaiah 55:2
Luke 10:40-42 ; Luke 12:20 Luke 12:21 Luke 12:29 1 Peter 5:7

he heapeth
Psalms 49:10 Psalms 49:11 Job 27:16 Job 27:17 ; Proverbs 13:22 ; 23:5 27:24 Ecclesiastes 2:8 Ecclesiastes 2:18-21 Ecclesiastes 2:26
Ecclesiastes 5:14 ; Luke 12:20 Luke 12:21 ; James 5:3