Psalm 144:4

A King's Prayer

³ O Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that You think of him?
⁴ Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.
⁵ Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Like a Passing Shadow

Man is Like a Breath

Man Is Like To Vanity

Shadow That Passeth Away

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthened shadow,
And I wither away like grass.

Job 8:9

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Psalm 109:23

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 4:19

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!

Job 14:1-3

“Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Psalm 39:5-6

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 39:11

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days are like 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 which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!”