Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
KJV
Generatio et generatio laudabit opera tua, et potentiam tuam pronuntiabunt.
Vulgate
γενεὰ καὶ γενεὰ ἐπαινέσει τὰ ἔργα σου, καὶ τὴν δύναμίν σου ἀπαγγελοῦσιν·
LXX
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
ASV
אָ֭דָם לַ/הֶ֣בֶל דָּמָ֑ה יָ֝מָ֗י/ו כְּ/צֵ֣ל עוֹבֵֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
נִי
ny
verb · 29×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
צֵ֥ל
tsl
noun · 49×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
City of God · 4 passages
Chapter 15.—Of the Justice of the Punishment with Which Our First Parents Were Visited for Their Disobedience. Therefore, because the sin was a despising of the authority of God,—who had created man; who had made him in His own image; who had set him above the other animals; who had placed him in Paradise; who had enriched him with abundance of every kind and of safety; who had…
Chapter 11.—Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of Flesh is in Christ, Who Alone Had Power to Deliver His Own Soul from Hell. But after having prophesied these things, the prophet betakes him to praying to God; yet even the very prayer is prophecy: “How long, Lord, dost Thou turn away in the end?”10591059 Ps. lxxxix. 46. “Thy face” is understood,…
Chapter 2.—That in the Mingled Web of Human Affairs God’s Judgment is Present, Though It Cannot Be Discerned. In this present time we learn to bear with equanimity the ills to which even good men are subject, and to hold cheap the blessings which even the wicked enjoy. And consequently, even in those conditions of life in which the justice of God is not apparent, His teaching i…
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Cross-references
- 1Chr 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- 2Sam 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 hi
- Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
- Eccl 9:9 — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in th
- Eccl 12:8 — Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
- Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
- Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
- Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Ps 39:5 — 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.
- Ps 39:5 — 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.
- Ps 89:47 — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- Ps 109:23 — I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
- Rev 21:4 — And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.