Psalms 144:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue. 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:14-16
    3 verses
    83%

    14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

    15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1"Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

    2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Ps 144:3
    81%

    3Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

  • Ps 39:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4"Yahweh, show me my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

    5Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

    6"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • Jas 4:14
    78%

    14Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

    12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Job 14:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up,

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Ps 89:47
    77%

    47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,

  • Eccl 11:8
    75%

    8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Job 7:17
    75%

    17What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

  • Ps 94:11
    74%

    11Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.

  • Isa 2:22
    74%

    22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    73%

    19For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

    4For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.

  • Job 7:1
    73%

    1"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • Ps 8:4
    73%

    4What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him?

  • Ps 62:9
    73%

    9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

    10The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.

  • Eccl 12:8
    73%

    8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.

  • Ps 90:6
    72%

    6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Job 14:5
    72%

    5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 2:23
    72%

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.