Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
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Psalm 39:5, 6
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah . . .

Psalm 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they are pushed up; together they are but a breath.

Psalm 89:47
Remember how short is my lifespan. For what futility You have created all men!

Job 4:19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 14:1-3
Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. . . .

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 14
"Futility of futilities, " says the Teacher, "futility of futilities! Everything is futile!" . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Futility of futilities, " says the Teacher. "Everything is futile!"

his days

Psalm 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 103:15, 16
As for man, his days are like grass--he blooms like a flower of the field; . . .

Psalm 109:23
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

2 Samuel 14:14
For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways so that the banished one may not remain estranged from Him.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and sojourners in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 8:9
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

King James Bible
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

International Standard Version
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A son of man is like a vapor and his days pass away like smoke.
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