Verse 4

Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.)
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I passe away like a vading shadowe: and I am dryuen from place to place lyke the grashopper.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne I say and but playne vanitie.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 Thus haue I considered all these thynges that come to passe vnder the sunne: and lo, they are all but vanitie and vexation of mynde.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 Againe, as for the vngodly it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his dayes: but euen as a shadowe, so shall he be that feareth not God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 All is but vanitie (saith the preacher) all is but playne vanitie.
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie. 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state. 3 Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al together vanitie. Selah. 6 Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 As for the chyldren of men, they be onlye but vanitie, the chyldren of lordes be but a lye: vpon the wayghtes they be altogether lighter then vanitie in selfe.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde. 16 For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more seene: and the place therof knoweth it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must nedes dye, and are as wather spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered vp againe: Neither doth God spare any person, yet doth he appoynt meanes that his banished be not vtterly expelled from him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth?