Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

New American Standard Bible

They die in youth,
And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes.

King James Version

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

Holman Bible

They die in their youth;
their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

International Standard Version

They die in their youth; and their life will end among temple prostitutes.

A Conservative Version

They die in youth, and their life [perishes] among the unclean.

American Standard Version

They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.

Amplified


“They die in youth,
And their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

Darby Translation

Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

Julia Smith Translation

Their soul will die in youth, and their life among the consecrated.

King James 2000

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{They die in their youth}, and their life [ends] among the male shrine prostitutes.

Modern King James verseion

Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus their soul perisheth in foolishness, and their life shall be condemned among the fornicators.

NET Bible

They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

New Heart English Bible

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

The Emphasized Bible

Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.

Webster

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

World English Bible

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Youngs Literal Translation

Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

die
מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

in youth
נער 
No`ar 
Usage: 4

and their life
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

References

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

13 Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners. 14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods. 15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:17

No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

Job 15:32

His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

Job 22:16

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Genesis 19:5

And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

Genesis 19:24-25

Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 38:7-10

Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

Leviticus 10:1-2

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.

Job 21:23-25

One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

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