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
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 …
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed …
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man …
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth …
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely …
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the …