Psalms 144:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:14-16
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    83%

    14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Ps 144:3
    81%

    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

  • Ps 39:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

    5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Jas 4:14
    78%

    14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Job 14:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Ps 89:47
    77%

    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Eccl 11:8
    75%

    8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • Job 7:17
    75%

    17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • Ps 94:11
    74%

    11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

  • Isa 2:22
    74%

    22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

    20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

    4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

  • Job 7:1
    73%

    1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • Ps 8:4
    73%

    4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

  • Ps 62:9
    73%

    9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

    10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

  • Eccl 12:8
    73%

    8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Ps 90:6
    72%

    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Job 14:5
    72%

    5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4 And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • Eccl 2:23
    72%

    23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.