Parallel Verses
NET Bible
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.
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 Lord, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them? 4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears. 5 O Lord, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
Job 8:9
For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
Psalm 109:23
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
Job 4:19
how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
Job 14:1-3
"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5-6
Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.
Psalm 39:11
You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
Psalm 62:9
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
Psalm 89:47
Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
Psalm 103:15-16
A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Futile! Futile!" laments the Teacher, "Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!"
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile -- like chasing the wind!
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Absolutely futile!" laments the Teacher, "All of these things are futile!"