Psalm 144:4

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, 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, 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, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a arbeh.

Psalm 39:11

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.* Selah.

Psalm 62:9

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you 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 chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

*Vanity of vanities,* says Kohelet; *Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.*

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, says Kohelet. All is vanity!

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.