Psalm 144:4

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

Job 4:19

Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.

Job 8:9

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Psalm 102:11

My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.

Psalm 109:23

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

Psalm 39:11

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

Psalm 89:47

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.