Psalms 144:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 vexation of spirit.
  • 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 an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: 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: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
  • 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 spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:14-16
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    83%

    14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.

    15[As 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
    2 verses
    83%

    1¶ Man [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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    3LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

  • Ps 39:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

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

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Jas 4:14
    78%

    14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    78%

    11¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

    12For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] 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
    2 verses
    78%

    10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?

    11[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • Ps 89:47
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    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    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 he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,

  • Eccl 11:8
    75%

    8But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

  • Job 7:17
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    17¶ What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

  • Ps 94:11
    74%

    11The LORD 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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    74%

    10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    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; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

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

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    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
    73%

    1¶ [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?

  • Ps 4:2
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    2O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

    20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

  • Ps 8:4
    73%

    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  • Ps 62:9
    73%

    9Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].

    10The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Eccl 12:8
    73%

    8¶ Vanity 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
    72%

    5Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • Eccl 4:4
    72%

    4¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:23
    72%

    23For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.