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Psalms 144:4
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Psalms 144:4
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They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
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Psalms 144:4 in Other Translations
KJV
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Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
ESV
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Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
NLT
4
For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.
MSG
4
All we are is a puff of air; we're like shadows in a campfire.
CSB
4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Psalms 144:4 In-Context
2
He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
3
LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
4
They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
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Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
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Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
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Job 7:7
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Job 27:3
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Isaiah 2:22
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1 Chronicles 29:15
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Job 14:2
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James 4:14
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Psalms 39:11
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Psalms 102:11
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