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Psalm 144:4
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KJ21
Man is like vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
ASV
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
AMP
Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a shadow that passes away.
AMPC
Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
BRG
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
CSB
A human is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
CSBA
A human is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
CEB
Humans are like a puff of air; their days go by like a shadow.
CJB
Man is like a puff of wind, his days like a fleeting shadow.
CEV
We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.
DARBY
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
DRA
Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.
ERV
Our life is like a puff of air. It is like a passing shadow.
EASY
People soon pass away, just like a breath. Their life is like a shadow that soon goes.
EHV
Man is like a breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
ESV
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
ESVUK
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
EXB
People are like ·a breath [vapor; 39:5, 11; 62:9; Eccl. 1:2]; their ·lives [L days] are like passing shadows [102:11; 109:23; Eccl. 6:12].
GNV
Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that vanisheth.
GW
Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.
GNT
We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow.
HCSB
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
ICB
A man is like a breath. His life is like a passing shadow.
ISV
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
JUB
Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
KJV
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
AKJV
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
LSB
Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
LEB
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
TLB
For man is but a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
MSG
I wonder why you care, God— why do you bother with us at all? All we are is a puff of air; we’re like shadows in a campfire.
MEV
Man is like a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
NOG
Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.
NABRE
Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
NASB
Man is like the breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
NASB1995
Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
NCB
Man is nothing more than a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
NCV
People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.
NET
People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
NIRV
Their lives don’t last any longer than a breath. Their days are like a shadow that quickly disappears.
NIV
They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
NIVUK
They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
NKJV
Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
NLV
Man is like a breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
NLT
For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.
NRSVA
They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.
NRSVACE
They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.
NRSVCE
They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.
NRSVUE
They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.
OJB
Adam is like hevel; his days are as a tzel that passeth away.
RGT
Man is like vanity, his days like a shadow that vanishes.
RSV
Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
RSVCE
Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
TLV
Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.
VOICE
Humans are like a passing breath; their time on earth is like a shadow that passes over us during the day and soon is gone.
WEB
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
WYC
A man is made like vanity; his days pass as shadow. (A person is but like vanity, yea, but a puff of air; his days pass like a shadow.)
YLT
Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
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