Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
In Context
3LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!
5Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must essentially die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Job 4:19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which 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, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:11When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore have you made all men in vain?
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 →