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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 your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.
11
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Phrases
Cross References
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Psalm 102:3-4
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
Isaiah 40:6-8
A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
James 4:14
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
1 Peter 1:24
for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,