Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
- Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
- Ps 109:23 : 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
- Eccl 1:2 : 2 "Vanity of vanities," says 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 a chasing after wind.
- Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
- Eccl 12:8 : 8 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"
- Job 14:1-3 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue. 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
- Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
- Ps 39:11 : 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
- Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
- Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
- 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
- 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!
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- Ps 103:14-163 verses83%
14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- Job 14:1-22 verses83%
1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
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3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
- Ps 39:4-63 verses81%
4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
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14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
- Eccl 6:11-122 verses78%
11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
- Job 14:10-112 verses78%
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
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47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
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15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
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11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
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4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
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5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,
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8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
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17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
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15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
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24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
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11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
- Jas 1:10-112 verses74%
10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Eccl 3:19-202 verses73%
19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
- Ps 90:3-42 verses73%
3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
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1 "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
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2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
- Job 4:19-202 verses73%
19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
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4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
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9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- Ps 90:9-102 verses73%
9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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8 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"
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11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
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6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
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5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
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4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.