| Psalm 144:4 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| ASV: | Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| BBE: | Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone. |
| DBY: | Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| ERV: | Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| JPS: | Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| WBS: | Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| WEB: | Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. |
| YLT: | Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by. |
| Psalm 144:4 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 8:9 "For we are only of yesterday and know nothing, Because our days on earth are as a shadow.
Job 14:2 "Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
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 102:11 My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
Psalm 109:23 I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like the locust. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| MHC: | 144:1-8 When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that God has been their Teacher. Happy those to whom the Lord gives that noblest victory, conquest and dominion over their own spirits. A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy. There was a special power of God, inclining the people of Israel to be subject to David; it was typical of the bringing souls into subjection to the Lord Jesus. Man's days have little substance, considering how many thoughts and cares of a never-dying soul are employed about a poor dying body. Man's life is as a shadow that passes away. In their highest earthly exaltation, believers will recollect how mean, sinful, and vile they are in themselves; thus they will be preserved from self-importance and presumption. God's time to help his people is, when they are sinking, and all other helps fail. |
| CONC: | Breath Fleeting Mere Passes Passeth Passing Quickly Shade Shadow Vanity |
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