Psalm 144:4

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Summary

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Man

Ecclesiastes 12:8

His days

Ecclesiastes 8:13

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Bible References

Man

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath.

Selah.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

Remember what my span of life is;

For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!

“Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

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Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,

“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!”

His days

My days are like a

lengthened shadow,

And I wither away like grass.

As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

General references

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Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,

“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”