Psalm 144:4

New King James Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth?

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And 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 iniquity, You make his beauty melt away like a moth; Surely every man is vapor. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapor.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “All is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.