Psa 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
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My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}
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}
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all {is} vanity.
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}
Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong {his} days, {which are} as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
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}
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all {is} vanity and vexation of spirit.
{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all {is} vanity.
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}
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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. {abiding: Heb. expectation}
How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all {is} vanity.
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}
(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}
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. {abiding: Heb. expectation}
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? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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 thy labour which thou takest under the sun. {Live...: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life}
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong {his} days, {which are} as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.
Thou {art} beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as {an army} with banners.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.