Verse 4

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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!