Psalms 144:4
They are like a breath, their days as a shadow that passes.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
3Lord, what are mortals that you care for them, humans, that you think of them?
5Lord, bow your heavens and come down: touch the hills, so that they smoke.
Cross References
Psalms 39:5See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: Selah
Psalms 39:11When you rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they tresure. Everyone is only a breath. Selah
Psalms 89:47Remember, Lord, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people.
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 →