Psalm 144:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.

Cross References

Psalm 102:11

My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am tossed aside like a crawling insect.

Job 8:9

Our own time has been short, like a fading shadow, and we know very little.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Nothing makes sense. I have seen it all— nothing makes sense.

2 Samuel 14:14

We each must die and disappear like water poured out on the ground. But God doesn't take our lives. Instead, he finds ways of bringing us back when we run away.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but no one who sins and rejects God will prosper or live very long.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen it all, and everything is just as senseless as chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Nothing makes sense! Everything is nonsense. I have seen it all— nothing makes sense!

Psalm 89:47

Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?

Psalm 62:9

We humans are only a breath; none of us are truly great. All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.

Psalm 39:11

You punish us severely because of our sins. Like a moth, you destroy what we treasure most. We are as frail as a breath.

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Job 4:19

Humans are formed from clay and are fragile as moths, so what chance do you have?