Psalms 144:4
What does Psalms 144:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 144:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Man to vanity hath been like, His days <FI>are<Fi> as a shadow passing by.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Context
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!
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