Psalm 144:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Common English Bible

⁴ Humans are like a puff of air; their days go by like a shadow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

Psalm 144:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!

Job 8:9

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Psalm 39:11

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Ecclesiastes 1:14

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

Ecclesiastes 1:2

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

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.