Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 144 connects to 10 cross-references. A psalm of David combining earlier psalms, praising the Lord as rock, fortress, and deliverer who trains hands for battle. David reflects on human transience — like a breath — and prays for divine rescue. The psalm ends with a …
Other Translations
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man to vanity hath been like, His days <FI>are<Fi> as a shadow passing by.
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Cross References
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed …
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither …
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as …
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.