Psalms 144:4
Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
5O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may 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; neither doth God respect any person; but let him devise 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 39:5(39-6) Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalms 39:11(39-12) With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Selah
Psalms 89:47(89-48) O 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 →