Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
WEB
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
YLT
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
DBT
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.