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World English Bible

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

New American Standard Bible

My days are like a lengthened shadow,
And I wither away like grass.

King James Version

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Holman Bible

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

American

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away. 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass. 12 But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.


Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 39:5-6

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Psalm 102:3-4

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Isaiah 40:6-8

The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

James 1:10

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

James 4:14

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

1 Peter 1:24

For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

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