Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
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.
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.
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 Yahweh, what [is] humankind that you take knowledge of him, [or the] son of man that you take thought of him? 4 Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow. 5 O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
Job 8:9
for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.
Psalm 109:23
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For {we must certainly die}, and [we are] as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Job 4:19
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
Job 14:1-3
"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.
Psalm 39:5-6
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
Psalm 39:11
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Psalm 62:9
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
Psalm 89:47
Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Vanity of vanity!" says the Teacher. "Everything [is] vanity!"