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Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath;

his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 144:4 BSB

Psalm 144:4 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 102:11 (7 votes) and Job 8:9 (5 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from 2 Samuel 14 to Revelation 21.

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Which verses does Psalm 144:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 102:117 votes

    My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

  2. Job 8:95 votes

    For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

  3. Psalm 39:5–65 votes

    You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

  4. Psalm 109:235 votes

    I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

  5. 2 Samuel 14:143 votes

    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

  6. Ecclesiastes 12:83 votes

    “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

  7. 1 Chronicles 29:152 votes

    For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  8. Job 14:1–32 votes

    “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. …

  9. Psalm 39:112 votes

    You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

  10. Psalm 62:92 votes

    Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

  11. Psalm 89:472 votes
  12. Psalm 103:15–162 votes
  13. Ecclesiastes 1:22 votes
  14. Ecclesiastes 1:142 votes
  15. Ecclesiastes 8:132 votes
  16. Job 4:191 vote

Which verses point to Psalm 144:4?

The 10 strongest of 17.