Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Cross-references
Psalm 102:11 also compares life to a lengthening shadow — both use the same metaphor for fleeting existence.
Psalm 144:4 describes man's days as a passing shadow — the same image of transience used here.
1 Chronicles 29:15 also says our days are like a shadow with no abiding — reinforcing the fleeting life theme.
Job 14:2 compares man to a fleeting shadow — the same imagery of life's brevity as here.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 describes life passing like a shadow — echoing the same transient imagery.
Job 17:7 says his members are as a shadow, similarly using shadow imagery to depict fading strength and sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 also uses the shadow metaphor for life's brevity, but applies it to the wicked's fleeting days.
James 4:14 compares life to a vanishing vapor, echoing the same transience as the shadow and locust imagery here.