Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
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- Psalm 102:11 My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Job 8:9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Psalm 39:5–6 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.