Psalm 144:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

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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 shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell 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 know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I have gone like a lengthening shadow, I have been driven away like a locust.

Psalm 39:11

“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Sons of Aḏam are but a breath, Sons of men are a lie; If weighed in the scales, They are altogether lighter than breath.

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futility! Futility!” says Qoheleth. “Futility, futility, all is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Futility! Futility!” said the Qoheleth, “All is futile.”

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.