Psalm 144:4

Modern English Version

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; He devises plans so that His banished ones will not be cast out from Him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers and sojourners before You, just as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 4:19

Even 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 were born but yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 39:11

When with rebukes You correct man for sin, You consume like a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is mere vapor.   Selah

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are but a vapor; men of high degree are a lie; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than vapor.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have You created all the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, everything is vanity and like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says Qoheleth, “vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Teacher, “everything is vanity!”

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not stand in reverence before God.