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Psalms 144:4
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Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
A human is like a breath;his days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Our life is like a puff of air. It is like a passing shadow.
Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.
Man is like a puff of wind, his days like a fleeting shadow.
Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes.
People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like a breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow.
(143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
Man is like vapour; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like the breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
A man is maad lijk vanyte; hise daies passen as schadow.
Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like vanity: His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.
Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
Man is like a breath;His days are like a passing shadow.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Man: Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 62:9, Psalms 89:47, Job 4:19, Job 14:1-3, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 12:8
his days: Psalms 102:11, Psalms 103:15, Psalms 103:16, Psalms 109:23, 2 Samuel 14:14, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Job 8:9, Ecclesiastes 8:13
Reciprocal: Job 7:6 - swifter Job 7:16 - my days Job 14:2 - fleeth Ecclesiastes 6:12 - the days of his vain life Ecclesiastes 9:9 - all the days of the life Song of Solomon 6:4 - terrible Isaiah 2:22 - for wherein Revelation 21:4 - the former
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Man is like to vanity,.... Is vanity itself, in every age, state, and condition; yea, in his best estate, Psalms 39:5; or, "to the breath" h of the mouth, as Kimchi; which is gone as soon as seen almost: or, to a vapour i; to which the life of man is compared, James 4:14;
his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away; as the former denotes the frailty and mortality of man, this the shortness of his duration; his days fleeing away, and of no more continuance than the shadow cast by the sun, which presently declines and is gone.
h להבל "halitui", Muis; so Kimchi. i "Vapori", Cocceius; so the Syriac and Arabic versions
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Man is like to vanity - See the notes at Psalms 39:5-6; Psalms 62:9. The idea here is, that man can be compared only with that which is utterly vain - which is emptiness - which is nothing.
His days are as a shadow that passeth away - See the notes at Psalms 102:11 : “My days are like a shadow that declineth.” The idea is essentially the same. It is, that as a shadow has no substance, and that as it moves along constantly as the sun declines, until it vanishes altogether, so man has nothing substantial or permanent, and so he is constantly moving off and will soon wholly disappear.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 144:4. Man is like to vanity — אדם להבל דמה Adam lahebel damah, literally, Adam is like to Abel, exposed to the same miseries, accidents, and murderers; for in millions of cases the hands of brothers are lifted up to shed the blood of brothers. What are wars but fratricide in the great human family?
His days are as a shadow — The life of Abel was promissory of much blessedness; but it afforded merely the shadow of happiness. He was pure and holy, beloved of his parents, and beloved of God; but, becoming the object of his brother's envy, his life became a sacrifice to his piety.
