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Psalms 62:9

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Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.

Surely men {H120}{H1121} of low degree are vanity {H1892}, and men {H376} of high degree are a lie {H3577}: to be laid {H5927}{H8800)} in the balance {H3976}, they are altogether {H3162} lighter than vanity {H1892}.

Ordinary folks are merely a breath and important people a sham; if you lay them on a balance-scale, they go up both together are lighter than nothing.

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 39:5 (12 votes)

    Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

  • Isaiah 40:15 (10 votes)

    Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

  • Isaiah 40:17 (10 votes)

    All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

  • Psalms 118:9 (7 votes)

    [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

  • Psalms 39:11 (6 votes)

    When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

  • 1 Samuel 18:21 (4 votes)

    And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain.

  • 1 Samuel 18:26 (4 votes)

    And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.