Psalms 144:4

Read in context

Psalms 144:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

3 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

5 Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

6 Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Psalms 144:4

Read the commentary on Psalms 144

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 39:5

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalms 39:6

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Psalms 62:9

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Psalms 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Job 14:3

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

Psalms 102:11

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalms 103:16

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Psalms 109:23

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

2 Samuel 14:14

For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.