Devine Scripture

Psalms 144:4

Psalms chapter 144 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Context

v.3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

v.4This passage

v.5Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:13

    but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

  • Psalms 103:15

    As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • Job 8:9

    (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

  • Job 4:19

    How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!