Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.
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.
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.
Themes
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
3 Jehovah, what is man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him? 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by. 5 Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
Cross References
Psalm 102:11
My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
Job 8:9
(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)
Psalm 109:23
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
2 Samuel 14:14
for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
1 Chronicles 29:15
for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
Job 4:19
Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Job 14:1-3
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Psalm 39:5-6
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
Psalm 39:11
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.
Psalm 62:9
Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.
Psalm 89:47
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
Psalm 103:15-16
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!
Ecclesiastes 8:13
And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.