Verse 4

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

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?