Psalms 144:4

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Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 Because of your wrath and indignation, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am fading away like a shadow at sunset; I am shaken off like a locust.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 “Utterly meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun; they are all meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble. 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure. 3 Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is. 6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. 16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
  • 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%

    14 For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.

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

    16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

    2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.

  • Ps 144:3
    81%

    3 Lord, what is man that You care for him, or a son of man that You think of him?

  • Ps 39:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4 My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

    5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.

    6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

  • Jas 4:14
    78%

    14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11 Because of your wrath and indignation, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 The more words, the more meaningless—and what advantage does that bring to anyone?

    12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

  • Job 14:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he?

    11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9 for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12 Their inward thought is that their houses will last forever, and their dwelling places for all generations; they call their lands by their own names.

  • Ps 89:47
    77%

    47 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15 all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4 For it comes in vain and departs in darkness, and its name is covered in darkness.

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5 Are Your days like the days of a human? Are Your years like those of a strong man?

  • Eccl 11:8
    75%

    8 For if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them, but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is meaningless.

  • Job 7:17
    75%

    17 What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,

  • Ps 94:11
    74%

    11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man; He knows they are but a breath.

  • Isa 2:22
    74%

    22 Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

    11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6 My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over animals, for everything is meaningless.

    20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'

    4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night.

  • Job 7:1
    73%

    1 Isn't human life on earth like hard labor and their days like those of a hired worker?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. You have given me relief when I was in trouble. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

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

    20 From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • Ps 8:4
    73%

    4 When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon, and the stars that You have set in place—

  • Ps 62:9
    73%

    9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh.

    10 The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

  • Eccl 12:8
    73%

    8 'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • Ps 90:6
    72%

    6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up.

  • Job 14:5
    72%

    5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of their months and set limits they cannot exceed.

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4 And I saw that all toil and all skill in work are driven by one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Eccl 2:23
    72%

    23 All their days are full of sorrow, and their work is filled with grief; even at night their mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.