Psalms 144:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Man has been like a breath, || His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC143:4

Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

GNV

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

JPS

Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

LXXE143:4

Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אָ֭דָם לַהֶ֣בֶל דָּמָ֑ה יָ֝מָ֗יו כְּצֵ֣ל עוֹבֵֽר׃

LXX-Br143:4

Ἄνθρωπος ματαιότητι ὡμοιώθη, αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ σκιὰ παράγουσι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
• Psalms 109:23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
• Psalms 39:5–6You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he…
• 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will 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.
• Ecclesiastes 12:8“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
• Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
• Job 14:1–3“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him…
• Psalms 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
• Ecclesiastes 8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
• Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
• Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
• Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

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