Psalms 144:4 · KJV
“Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.”
— Psalms 144:4
LORD, what {is} man, that thou takest knowledge of him! {or} the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psalms 144 — Context
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and {he} in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. {My goodness: or, My mercy}
3LORD, what {is} man, that thou takest knowledge of him! {or} the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
5Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Cross References
Psalms 102:11
My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Job 8:9
(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}
Psalms 39:5-6
Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all {is} vanity.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and {are} as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect {any} person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. {neither...: or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc}
Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree {are} vanity, {and} men of high degree {are} a lie: to be laid in the balance, they {are} altogether {lighter} than vanity. {altogether: or, alike}