Psalms 144:4

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith 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 striving after wind.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 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.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [ 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. {{Selah
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water split 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.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, 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 them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

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  • Ps 103:14-16
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    14For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

    15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    83%

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

    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • Ps 144:3
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    3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [

    6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Jas 4:14
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    14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Job 14:10-11
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    78%

    10But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

    11[ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

  • Job 8:9
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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

  • Ps 49:12
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    12But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

  • Ps 89:47
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    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • Job 34:15
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    15All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • Ps 39:11
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    11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. {{Selah

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

  • Job 10:5
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    5Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • Job 7:17
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    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • Ps 94:11
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    11Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

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    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 befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

    20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Ps 90:3-4
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    73%

    3Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

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

  • Job 7:1
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    1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

  • Ps 4:2
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    2O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? [How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? {{Selah

  • Job 4:19-20
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    73%

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

    20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • Ps 8:4
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    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

  • Ps 90:9-10
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    9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

    10The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Ps 90:6
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    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Job 14:5
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    5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.