Psalms 144:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

KJV

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WEB

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

ASV

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

YLT

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

DBT

Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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23 verses on the floor

Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Revelation 21:4
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.
Psalms 39:5
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.
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

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6 ), who was highly exalted because he humbled himself to be found in fashion as a man, and has authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of man.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): Man is like to vanity; so frail is he, so weak, so helpless, compassed about with so many infirmities, and his continuance here so very short and uncertain, that he is as like as may be to vanity itself.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 144:4JOB 8:9 JOB 14:2
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 144:4JOB 8:9 1CH 29:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 144:4ECC 12:8 ECC 1:2
PSA 144:4JOB 8:9 PSA 102:11
PSA 144:4PSA 102:11 PSA 109:23
PSA 144:4JOB 8:9 JOB 7:6
PSA 144:4JOB 8:9 GEN 47:9
PSA 144:4PSA 102:11 1PE 1:24

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