Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

New American Standard Bible

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

King James Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Holman Bible

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

International Standard Version

For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

A Conservative Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

American Standard Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Amplified

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

Bible in Basic English

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Darby Translation

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.

Julia Smith Translation

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

King James 2000

For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

Modern King James verseion

For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

NET Bible

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

New Heart English Bible

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

The Emphasized Bible

for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.

Webster

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

World English Bible

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּיר גּר 
Ger 
Usage: 92

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

תּשׁב תּושׁב 
Towshab 
Usage: 14

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

on the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

are as a shadow
צל 
Tsel 
Usage: 49

References

American

Context Readings

David Prays In The Assembly

14 yea, because, who am I, and who are my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee is the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee; 15 for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding. 16 O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, is out of Thy hand, and of Thee is the whole.



Cross References

Job 14:2

As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

Psalm 102:11

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

Psalm 144:4

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

Leviticus 25:23

And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

Psalm 90:9

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

Psalm 119:19

A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

Isaiah 40:6-8

A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:

Hebrews 11:13-16

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

James 4:14

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

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