Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
5Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Job 14:1Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
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 →