Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a 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.
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.
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 LORD, what is man, that thou hast such respect unto him? Or the son of man, that thou so regardest him? 4 Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal.
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.
Psalm 109:23
I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and perish as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again: and God will not take away the life, but find the means that the banished be not utterly expelled from him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 4:19
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
Job 14:1-3
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalm 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?
Psalm 103:15-16
that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
Again, as for the ungodly, it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his days: but even as a shadow, so shall he be that feareth not God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
All is but vanity - sayeth the preacher - all is but plain vanity.