Psalms 144:4
Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
5Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.
Job 4:19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 14:1Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:11When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 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! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →