Psalms 144:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Introduction: Utter Futility“Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher,“Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile– like chasing the wind!
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Concluding Refrain: Qoheleth Restates His Thesis“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,“All of these things are futile!”
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble. 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain. 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah) 6 Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

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  • Ps 103:14-16
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    14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    83%

    1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Ps 144:3
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    3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    81%

    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Ps 146:4
    79%

    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Jas 4:14
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    14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    78%

    11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

    12For no one knows what is best for a person during his life– during the few days of his fleeting life– for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

  • Job 14:10-11
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    78%

    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

    11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

  • Job 8:9
    78%

    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 49:12
    77%

    12but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

  • Ps 89:47
    77%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Ps 39:11
    76%

    11You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

  • Job 10:5
    75%

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.

  • Job 7:17
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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24For 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
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    11The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

    11For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

  • Job 7:6
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    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

    20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

  • Ps 90:3-4
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    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

    4Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

  • Job 7:1
    73%

    1The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

  • Ps 4:2
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    2You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)

  • Job 4:19-20
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    73%

    19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Ps 8:4
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    4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

    10The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Concluding Refrain: Qoheleth Restates His Thesis“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,“All of these things are futile!”

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

  • Ps 90:6
    72%

    6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

  • Job 14:5
    72%

    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Eccl 4:4
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    4Labor Motivated by Envy Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless– like chasing the wind.

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!