Psalm 144:4 “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

World English Bible

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

American Standard Version

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Geneva Bible 1599

Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

Darby Translation

Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Young's Literal Translation

Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

Bible in Basic English

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

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Cross references

“Man”

Ecclesiastes 12:8 Psalm 62:9 Psalm 89:47 Job 14:1–3 Ecclesiastes 1:2 Ecclesiastes 1:14

Ecclesiastes 12:8 · BSB

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

Psalm 62:9 · BSB

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

Psalm 89:47 · BSB

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Job 14:1–3 · BSB

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Ecclesiastes 1:2 · BSB

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 1:14 · BSB

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

“his days”

Psalm 102:11 Psalm 109:23 Job 8:9 2 Samuel 14:14 1 Chronicles 29:15 Ecclesiastes 8:13

Psalm 102:11 · BSB

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23 · BSB

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Job 8:9 · BSB

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

2 Samuel 14:14 · BSB

For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

1 Chronicles 29:15 · BSB

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 · BSB

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

Also

Psalm 39:11

Psalm 39:11 · BSB

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

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