Verse 4

Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

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?