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New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Holman Bible
and I wither away like grass.
International Standard Version
My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.
A Conservative Version
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
American Standard Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Amplified
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.
Darby Translation
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Julia Smith Translation
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
King James 2000
My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
Modern King James verseion
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
NET Bible
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
New Heart English Bible
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
The Emphasized Bible
My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.
Webster
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
World English Bible
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Youngs Literal Translation
My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
Themes
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
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American
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
10
because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
11
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Phrases
Cross References
Job 14:2
He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 102:3-4
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as in a hearth.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field:
James 1:10
and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James 4:14
and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,