Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
New American Standard Bible
His
King James Version
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Holman Bible
his days are like a passing shadow.
International Standard Version
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
A Conservative Version
Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Amplified
Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Darby Translation
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Julia Smith Translation
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
King James 2000
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Modern King James verseion
Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.
NET Bible
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
New Heart English Bible
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
The Emphasized Bible
The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow.
Webster
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
World English Bible
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Youngs Literal Translation
Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.
Themes
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
3 Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For 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.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 4:19
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Job 14:1-3
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, 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
Psalm 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Psalm 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
Psalm 89:47
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.