Psalm 144:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Humans are like a puff of air; their days go by like a shadow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

Psalm 144:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.