Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. New Living Translation For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow. English Standard Version Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. Berean Standard Bible Man is like a 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. New King James Version Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow. New American Standard Bible Man is like the breath; His days are like a passing shadow. NASB 1995 Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow. NASB 1977 Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow. Legacy Standard Bible Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow. Amplified Bible Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a shadow that passes away. Christian Standard Bible A human is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. Holman Christian Standard Bible Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. American Standard Version Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away. Aramaic Bible in Plain English A son of man is like a vapor and his days pass away like smoke. Brenton Septuagint Translation Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow. Contemporary English Version We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow. Douay-Rheims Bible Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. English Revised Version Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. GOD'S WORD® Translation Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow. Good News Translation We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow. International Standard Version The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow. JPS Tanakh 1917 Man is like unto a breath; His days are as a shadow that passeth away. Literal Standard Version Man has been like a breath, | His days [are] as a shadow passing by. Majority Standard Bible Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. New American Bible Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow. NET Bible People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears. New Revised Standard Version They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow. New Heart English Bible Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. Webster's Bible Translation Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. World English Bible Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. Young's Literal Translation Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock…3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. 5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.… Cross References James 4:14 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Job 8:9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow. Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man! Job 14:2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Psalm 39:5 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 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah Psalm 102:11 My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass. Treasury of Scripture Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away. man Psalm 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… Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. Psalm 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? his days Psalm 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. Psalm 103:15,16 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth… Psalm 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Jump to Previous Breath Fleeting Life Mere Passes Passeth Passing Quickly Shade Shadow VanityJump to Next Breath Fleeting Life Mere Passes Passeth Passing Quickly Shade Shadow VanityPsalm 144 1. David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man5. He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies 9. He promises to praise God 11. He prays for the happy state of the kingdom (4) Vanity . . . shadow.--See Psalm 39:5-6; Psalm 102:11. The occasion of the introduction of these sentiments here is not quite clear. It may be the humility of the warrior who ascribes all success to God instead of to human prowess, or it may be a reflection uttered over the corpses of comrades, or, perhaps, a blending of the two.Verse 4. - Man is like to vanity; or, "to a breath" (comp. Psalm 39:5; Psalm 62:9). His days are as a shadow that passeth away (see Psalm 102:11; Psalm 119:23). And yet God has regard to this weak creature of an hour. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Manאָ֭דָם (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being is like דָּמָ֑ה (dā·māh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider a breath; לַהֶ֣בֶל (la·he·ḇel) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory his days יָ֝מָ֗יו (yā·māw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day are like a passing עוֹבֵֽר׃ (‘ō·w·ḇêr) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on shadow. כְּצֵ֣ל (kə·ṣêl) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6738: A shadow Links Psalm 144:4 NIVPsalm 144:4 NLT Psalm 144:4 ESV Psalm 144:4 NASB Psalm 144:4 KJV Psalm 144:4 BibleApps.com Psalm 144:4 Biblia Paralela Psalm 144:4 Chinese Bible Psalm 144:4 French Bible Psalm 144:4 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 144:4 Man is like a breath (Psalm Ps Psa.) |