Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing 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.
American Standard Version
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth 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.
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 O Jehovah, what is man and thou wilt know him? the son of man, and thou wilt reckon him? 4 Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away. 5 O Jehovah, incline thy heavens, and thou wilt come down: touch upon the mountains and they shall smoke.
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
Job 8:9
(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Psalm 109:23
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Job 4:19
Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.
Job 14:1-3
Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 39:11
With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.
Psalm 62:9
Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.
Psalm 89:47
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
Psalm 103:15-16
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit
Ecclesiastes 8:13
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.