Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

King James Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Holman Bible

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

International Standard Version

For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

A Conservative Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

American Standard Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Amplified

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

Bible in Basic English

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Darby Translation

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.

Julia Smith Translation

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

King James 2000

For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

Modern King James verseion

For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

NET Bible

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

New Heart English Bible

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

The Emphasized Bible

for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.

Webster

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

World English Bible

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Youngs Literal Translation

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּיר גּר 
Ger 
Usage: 92

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

תּשׁב תּושׁב 
Towshab 
Usage: 14

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

on the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

are as a shadow
צל 
Tsel 
Usage: 49

References

American

Context Readings

David Prays In The Assembly

14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee. 15 For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. 16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name comes of thy hand and is all thy own.

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 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger in the earth; hide not thy commandments from me.

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:

Hebrews 11:13-16

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off and believing them and embracing them and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from the carnal desires which war against the soul

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