Psalm 144:4

God's Word

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We are all going to die; we are all like water that is poured on the ground and can’t be gathered up. But doesn’t God forgive a person? He never plans to keep a banished person in exile.

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

Job 4:19

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust. Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

Job 8:9

We have only been around since yesterday, and we know nothing. Our days on earth are only a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.

Psalm 39:11

With stern warnings you discipline people for their crimes. Like a moth you eat away at what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is! Have you created Adam’s descendants for no reason?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun. Look at it! It’s all pointless. ⌞It’s like⌟ trying to catch the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Absolutely pointless!” says the spokesman. “Absolutely pointless! Everything is pointless.”

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Absolutely pointless!” says the spokesman. “Everything is pointless!”

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well for the wicked. They will not live any longer. Their lives are like shadows, because they don’t fear God.