Verse 4

Man{H120} is like{H1819}{(H8804)} to vanity{H1892}: his days{H3117} are as a shadow{H6738} that passeth away{H5674}{(H8802)}.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days{H3117} are like a shadow{H6738} that declineth{H5186}{(H8803)}; and I am withered{H3001}{(H8799)} like grass{H6212}.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday{H8543}, and know{H3045}{(H8799)} nothing, because our days{H3117} upon earth{H776} are a shadow{H6738}:)
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone{H1980}{(H8738)} like the shadow{H6738} when it declineth{H5186}{(H8800)}: I am tossed up and down{H5287}{(H8738)} as the locust{H697}.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity{H1892} of vanities{H1892}, saith{H559}{(H8804)} the Preacher{H6953}, vanity{H1892} of vanities{H1892}; all is vanity{H1892}.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen{H7200}{(H8804)} all the works{H4639} that are done{H6213}{(H8738)} under the sun{H8121}; and, behold, all is vanity{H1892} and vexation{H7469} of spirit{H7307}.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well{H2896} with the wicked{H7563}, neither shall he prolong{H748}{(H8686)} his days{H3117}, which are as a shadow{H6738}; because he feareth{H3373} not before{H6440} God{H430}.
  • Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanity{H1892} of vanities{H1892}, saith{H559}{(H8804)} the preacher{H6953}; all is vanity{H1892}.
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man{H120} that is born{H3205}{(H8803)} of a woman{H802} is of few{H7116} days{H3117}, and full{H7649} of trouble{H7267}. 2 He cometh forth{H3318}{(H8804)} like a flower{H6731}, and is cut down{H5243}{(H8799)}: he fleeth{H1272}{(H8799)} also as a shadow{H6738}, and continueth{H5975}{(H8799)} not. 3 And dost thou open{H6491}{(H8804)} thine eyes{H5869} upon such an one{H2088}, and bringest{H935}{(H8686)} me into judgment{H4941} with thee?
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, thou hast made{H5414}{(H8804)} my days{H3117} as an handbreadth{H2947}; and mine age{H2465} is as nothing before thee: verily every{H3605} man{H120} at his best state{H5324}{H8737)} is altogether{H3605} vanity{H1892}. Selah{H5542}. 6 Surely every man{H376} walketh{H1980}{(H8691)} in a vain shew{H6754}: surely they are disquieted{H1993}{H8799)} in vain{H1892}: he heapeth up{H6651}{H8799)} riches, and knoweth{H3045}{H8799)} not who shall gather{H622}{H8802)} them.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes{H8433} dost correct{H3256}{(H8765)} man{H376} for iniquity{H5771}, thou makest his beauty{H2530}{H8803)} to consume away{H4529}{H8686)} like a moth{H6211}: surely every man{H120} is vanity{H1892}. Selah{H5542}.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men{H120}{H1121} of low degree are vanity{H1892}, and men{H376} of high degree are a lie{H3577}: to be laid{H5927}{H8800)} in the balance{H3976}, they are altogether{H3162} lighter than vanity{H1892}.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember{H2142}{H8798)} how short{H2465} my time is: wherefore hast thou made{H1254}{H8804)} all men{H1121}{H120} in vain{H7723}?
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man{H582}, his days{H3117} are as grass{H2682}: as a flower{H6731} of the field{H7704}, so he flourisheth{H6692}{(H8686)}. 16 For the wind{H7307} passeth over{H5674}{(H8804)} it, and it is gone; and the place{H4725} thereof shall know{H5234}{(H8686)} it no more.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs{H4191}{(H8800)} die{H4191}{(H8799)}, and are as water{H4325} spilt{H5064}{(H8737)} on the ground{H776}, which cannot be gathered up again{H622}{(H8735)}; neither doth God{H430} respect{H5375}{(H8799)} any person{H5315}: yet doth he devise{H2803}{(H8804)} means{H4284}, that his banished{H5080}{(H8737)} be not expelled{H5080}{(H8799)} from him.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers{H1616} before{H6440} thee, and sojourners{H8453}, as were all our fathers{H1}: our days{H3117} on the earth{H776} are as a shadow{H6738}, and there is none abiding{H4723}.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much less{H637} in them that dwell{H7931}{(H8802)} in houses{H1004} of clay{H2563}, whose foundation{H3247} is in the dust{H6083}, which are crushed{H1792}{(H8762)} before{H6440} the moth{H6211}?