Psalm 144:4

New Century Version

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

Cross References

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!

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.

Job 8:9

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

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.

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

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 89:47

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

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.”

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

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.