Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.

New American Standard Bible

“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have made.

King James Version

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Holman Bible

For I will not accuse you forever,
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.

International Standard Version

For I won't accuse forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the human spirit would grow faint before me even the souls that I have created.

A Conservative Version

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

American Standard Version

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

Amplified


“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have created.

Bible in Basic English

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

Darby Translation

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Julia Smith Translation

For not forever will I contend, and not to everlasting will I be angry: for the spirit will faint from before me, and the lives I made.

King James 2000

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for [the] spirit will grow faint before me, and [the] breaths [that] I myself I have made.

Modern King James verseion

For I will not contend forever, nor will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls I have made.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath.

NET Bible

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man's spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

New Heart English Bible

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

The Emphasized Bible

For not age-abidingly, will I contend, Nor perpetually, will I be wroth, - For, spirit, before me, would faint, Even the breathing souls, which, I, had made.

Webster

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

World English Bible

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For I will not contend
רוּב ריבo 
Riyb 
Usage: 66

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

neither will I be always
נצח נצח 
Netsach 
Usage: 43

קצף 
Qatsaph 
Usage: 34

for the spirit
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

me, and the souls
נשׁמה 
N@shamah 
Usage: 24

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Peace For The Contrite

15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,' 16 For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.


Cross References

Psalm 85:5

To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth in kindness.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

Genesis 6:3

And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

Numbers 16:22

and they fall on their faces, and say, 'God, God of the spirits of all flesh -- the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'

Job 34:14-15

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

Psalm 78:38-39

And He -- the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.

Psalm 103:9-16

Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 10:24

Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

Jeremiah 38:16

And the king Zedekiah sweareth unto Jeremiah in secret, saying, 'Jehovah liveth, He who made for us this soul, I do not put thee to death, nor give thee unto the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul.'

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.

Hebrews 12:9

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

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