Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years.
New American Standard Bible
I am to enter the
I am to be
King James Version
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Holman Bible
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
International Standard Version
I said, "Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!"
A Conservative Version
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.
American Standard Version
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Amplified
I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”
Bible in Basic English
I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
Darby Translation
I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
Julia Smith Translation
I said in the quiet of my days, I shall go to the gates of hades: I was missed the remainder of my years.
King James 2000
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol [for] the rest of my years."
Modern King James verseion
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.
NET Bible
"I thought, 'In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.'
New Heart English Bible
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
The Emphasized Bible
I, said - In the noontide of my days, I must enter the gates of hades, - I am deprived of the residue of ray years!
Webster
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
World English Bible
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
Themes
Gates » Illustrative » (of the grave,) of death
Gates » Figurative » Of the grave
hezekiah » King of judah » His psalm of thanksgiving
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 38:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hezekiah's Illness
9 A thanksgiving, which Hezekiah king of Judah wrote, when he had been sick, and was recovered. 10 "I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years. 11 I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:9
Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -
Psalm 102:24
Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."
Job 6:11
What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?
Job 7:7
"O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;
Job 17:11-16
My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart,
Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door.
Isaiah 38:1
Not long afore this, was Hezekiah sick unto death: And the Prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came unto him, and said, "Thus commandeth the LORD, 'Set thine house in order: for thou must die, and shall not escape.