Psalms 144:4
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- KJV
- Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- WEB
- Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
- ASV
- Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- DARBY
- Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- BLB
- Man is like a breath; his days [are] like a shadow passing by.
- ÅB
- Et menneske er lik et åndepust, hans dager er som en skygge som farer forbi.
- OTB
- Mennesket er som et pust;
Hans dager er som en flyktig skygge. - B1930
- Et menneske er lik et åndepust, hans dager er som en skygge som farer forbi.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Read in contextPsalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Read in contextJob 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Read in contextPsalms 39:5–6
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.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Read in context2 Samuel 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.
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
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.
Read in contextPsalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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