Psalm 144:4

New Century Version

People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.

Cross References

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am dying like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Job 8:9

because we were only born yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are only a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Everything is useless! The Teacher says that everything is useless.

2 Samuel 14:14

We will all die someday. We’re like water spilled on the ground; no one can gather it back. But God doesn’t take away life. Instead, he plans ways that those who have been sent away will not have to stay away from him!

Ecclesiastes 8:13

I also know it will not go well for evil people, because they do not honor God. Like a shadow, they will not last.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I looked at everything done on earth and saw that it is all useless, like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

The Teacher says, “Useless! Useless! Completely useless! Everything is useless.”

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?

Psalm 62:9

The least of people are only a breath, and even the greatest are just a lie. On the scales, they weigh nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 39:11

You correct and punish people for their sins; like a moth, you destroy what they love. Everyone’s life is only a breath.Selah

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are like foreigners and strangers, as our ancestors were. Our time on earth is like a shadow. There is no hope.

Job 4:19

So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses, whose foundations are made of dust, who can be crushed like a moth.