Psalms 144:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble. 2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not. 3 And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah. 6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he. 16 For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needes dye, and we are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered vp againe: neither doeth God spare any person, yet doeth he appoynt meanes, not to cast out from him, him that is expelled.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:14-16
    3 verses
    83%

    14 For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust.

    15 The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he.

    16 For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

    2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

  • Ps 144:3
    81%

    3 Lorde, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!

  • Ps 39:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4 Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

    5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

    6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4 His breath departeth, and he returneth to his earth: then his thoughtes perish.

  • Jas 4:14
    78%

    14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 (7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

    12 (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

  • Job 14:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

    11 As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12 But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die.

  • Ps 89:47
    77%

    47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15 All flesh shal perish together, and man shal returne vnto dust.

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    11 When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4 For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? Or thy yeres, as the time of man,

  • Eccl 11:8
    75%

    8 Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.

  • Job 7:17
    75%

    17 What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24 For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.

  • Ps 94:11
    74%

    11 The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.

  • Isa 2:22
    74%

    22 Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

    11 For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are euen as one condition vnto them. As the one dyeth, so dyeth the other: for they haue all one breath, and there is no excellency of man aboue ye beast: for all is vanitie.

    20 All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Thou turnest man to destruction: againe thou sayest, Returne, ye sonnes of Adam.

    4 For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, & as a watch in the night.

  • Job 7:1
    73%

    1 Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?

  • Ps 4:2
    73%

    2 O ye sonnes of men, howe long will yee turne my glory into shame, louing vanitie, and seeking lyes? Selah.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

    20 They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

  • Ps 8:4
    73%

    4 What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?

  • Ps 62:9
    73%

    9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.

    10 The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.

  • Eccl 12:8
    73%

    8 Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11 My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart

  • Ps 90:6
    72%

    6 In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth.

  • Job 14:5
    72%

    5 Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4 Also I beheld all trauaile, & all perfection of workes that this is ye enuie of a man against his neighbour: this also is vanitie & vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:23
    72%

    23 For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.