Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
American Standard 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 Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Job 14:1Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Psalms 89:47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children 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 →