Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
New American Standard Bible
And my
King James Version
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Holman Bible
and my bones burn like a furnace.
International Standard Version
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.
American Standard Version
For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Amplified
For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Darby Translation
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Julia Smith Translation
For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.
King James 2000
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.
Modern King James verseion
For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.
NET Bible
For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
New Heart English Bible
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
The Emphasized Bible
For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through;
Webster
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
World English Bible
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Youngs Literal Translation
For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress. Incline thine ear to me. In the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Cross References
James 4:14
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Job 30:30
My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of LORD [is] as the fat of lambs: they shall disintegrate; they shall disintegrate away into smoke.
Psalm 31:10
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.
Psalm 22:14-15
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.