Psa 39:11, 62:9, 144:4, Ecc 1:2, 2:11, Isa 40:17 | ESV | STEP | When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin , you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath ! Selah

m[See ver. 1 above]

Psalms 39:11

11 When you discipline a man
with ^arebukes for sin,
you ^bconsume like a ^cmoth what is dear to him;
^dsurely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

Psalms 62:9

9 ^eThose of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate ^fare a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
^gthey are together lighter than a breath.

Psalms 144:4

4 ^hMan is like a breath;
his days are like ⁱa passing ^jshadow.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

2 ^kVanity ^{▼▼The Hebrew term hebel, translated vanity or vain, refers concretely to a “mist,” “vapor,” or “mere breath,” and metaphorically to something that is fleeting or elusive (with different nuances depending on the context). It appears five times in this verse and in 29 other verses in Ecclesiastes} of vanities, says ^mthe Preacher,
ⁿvanity of vanities! ^oAll is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was ^pvanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing ^qto be gained under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

17 ^rAll the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.