Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

New American Standard Bible

So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

King James Version

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Holman Bible

Remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away pain from your flesh,
because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

International Standard Version

Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.

American Standard Version

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Amplified

Therefore, remove sorrow and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, for childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

Bible in Basic English

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Darby Translation

Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

Julia Smith Translation

And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

King James 2000

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor [are] vanity.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remove evil from thy body: for childhood and youth is but vanity.

NET Bible

Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

The Emphasized Bible

Therefore remove thou vexation from thy heart, and put away discomfort from thy flesh, - for, youth and dawn, are vanity!

Webster

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

World English Bible

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Youngs Literal Translation

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

כּעשׂ כּעס 
Ka`ac 
Usage: 25

and put away
עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

ילדוּת 
Yalduwth 
Usage: 3

and youth
שׁחרוּת 
Shacharuwth 
Usage: 1

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Enjoy Life To The Fullest Within The Auspices Of The Fear Of God

9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmen 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.



Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

2 Timothy 2:22

And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Job 13:26

For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

Job 20:11

His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Psalm 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 90:7-11

For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them,

2 Peter 3:11-14

Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties,

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