King James Version
Psalms 144:4 in the King James Version says “Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 144 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”
Psalms 144:4 · KJV
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. My goodness: or, My mercy
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to vanity”
H1892emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
“his days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“that passeth away”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
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