Psalm 144:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Our life is like a puff of air. It is like a passing shadow.

Cross References

Psalm 102:11

My life is almost finished, like the long shadows at the end of the day. I am like dry and dying grass.

Psalm 109:23

I feel my life is over, fading like a shadow at day’s end. I feel like a bug that someone brushed away.

Job 8:9

It seems as though we were born yesterday. We are too young to know anything. Our days on earth are very short, like a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Everything is so meaningless. The Teacher says that it is all a waste of time!

2 Samuel 14:14

We will all die some day. We will be like water that is spilled on the ground. No one can gather this water back from the ground. You know God forgives people. God made plans for people who are forced to run away for safety—God does not force them to run away from him!

Ecclesiastes 8:13

Evil people don’t respect God, so they will not get good things or live long lives. Their lives will not be like the shadows that become longer and longer as the sun goes down.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I looked at everything done on earth, and I saw that it is all a waste of time. It is like trying to catch the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Everything is so meaningless. The Teacher says that it is all a waste of time!

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. You created us to live a short life and then die.

Psalm 62:9

People cannot really help. You cannot depend on them. Compared to God, they are nothing— no more than a gentle puff of air!

Psalm 39:11

You punish people for doing wrong to teach them the right way to live. As a moth destroys cloth, you destroy what people love. Yes, our lives are like a small cloud that quickly disappears. Selah

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only strangers traveling through this world like our ancestors. Our time on earth is like a passing shadow, and we cannot stop it.

Job 4:19

So surely people are worse! They live in houses of clay built on dust. They can be crushed as easily as a moth!