Psalm 144:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Man is like a breath, his 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 spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening 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

When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 62:9

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

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

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.