³ O Yahweh! what is the earthborn, And yet thou hast acknowledged him, - the son of a mortal, And yet thou hast taken account of him: ⁴ The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow. ⁵ O Yahweh! bow thy heavens and come down, Touch the mountains, that they smoke:

Phrases

Like a Passing Shadow

Man is Like a Breath

Man Is Like To Vanity

Shadow That Passeth Away

Cross References

Psalm 102:11

My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.

Job 8:9

For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

Psalm 109:23

As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;

2 Samuel 14:14

For, when we, die, we become as water poured on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, - therefore doth God not take away the life, but deviseth plans so as not to thrust out from him, a fugitive.

1 Chronicles 29:15

for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.

Job 4:19

How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:

Job 14:1-3

Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:

Psalm 39:5-6

Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.

Psalm 39:11

When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, like grass, are his days, Like the blossom of the field, so, doth he blossom;

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities! saith the Proclaimer, vanity of vanities! all, is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the works which were done under the sun, - and lo! all, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but, well, shall it not be to the lawless man, neither shall he lengthen out his days like a shadow, - because he standeth not in awe before God.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, saith the Proclaimer, all, is vanity.