John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 144:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Man is like to vanity, etc.] Is vanity itself, in every age, state, and condition; yea, in his best estate, (<193905>Psalm 39:5); or, “to the breath”f1923 of the mouth, as Kimchi; which is gone as soon as seen almost: or, to a vapourf1924; to which the life of man is compared, (<590414>James 4:14); his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away; as the former denotes the frailty and mortality of man, this the shortness of his duration; his days fleeing away, and of no more continuance than the shadow cast by the sun, which presently declines and is gone.

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