Psalms 144:4 Cross References - ISV

⁴ The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

¹⁴ After all, even though we all die, and we’re all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn’t take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.

¹⁵ For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

¹⁹ how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

⁹ Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.

¹ Human Beings Live and DieHuman beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble. ² He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn’t last. ³ Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you?

⁵ Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude ⁶ In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

¹¹ You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude

⁹ Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.

⁴⁷ Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

¹¹ My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.

¹⁵ A person’s life is like grass— it blossoms like wild flowers, ¹⁶ but when the wind blows through it, it withers away and no one remembers where it was.

²³ I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

² “Utterly pointless,” says the Teacher. “Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless.”

¹⁴ I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless—like chasing after the wind.

¹³ But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.

⁸ “Utterly pointless,” says the Teacher. “Everything is pointless.”