Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes 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.
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 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 that You take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that You esteem him? 4 Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away. 5 Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
Job 8:9
for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.
Psalm 109:23
As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must all die, and we are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take a life, but has devised plans so that the outcast is not cast out from Him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.
Job 4:19
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Job 14:1-3
Man born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 39:11
You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalm 89:47
Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says 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 vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.