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Psalms 144:4
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Psalms 144:4
4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
4*Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Psal.39.6. iob 14.2.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 144:4
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Passes: goes by, through, over, or beyond; happens, ceases, or is transferred, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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Open the full verse study9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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Open the full verse study23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, 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.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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Open the full verse study14For 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.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
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Open the full verse study15For 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.
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Open the full verse study14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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Open the full verse study13But 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.
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Open the full verse study1MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
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Open the full verse study15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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Open the full verse study11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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Open the full verse study9Surely 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.
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Open the full verse study47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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Open the full verse study19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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