Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

King James Version

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Holman Bible

For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.


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International Standard Version

For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

A Conservative Version

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.

American Standard Version

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Amplified


“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

Bible in Basic English

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

Darby Translation

For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Julia Smith Translation

When years of number shall come, and the way I shall go I shall not turn back

King James 2000

When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

Modern King James verseion

For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.

NET Bible

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

New Heart English Bible

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.

The Emphasized Bible

When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.

Webster

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

World English Bible

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

Youngs Literal Translation

When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
When a few
מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

אתא אתה 
'athah 
Usage: 21

then I shall go
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

the way
ארח 
'orach 
Usage: 59

Context Readings

Everything Was Going Well

21 “O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!
22 “For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.



Cross References

Job 14:10

“But man dies and lies prostrate.
Man expires, and where is he?

Job 7:9-10

“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

Job 14:5

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

Job 14:14

“If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my struggle I will wait
Until my change comes.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

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