Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust.

New American Standard Bible

For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

King James Version

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Holman Bible

For He knows what we are made of,
remembering that we are dust.

International Standard Version

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

American Standard Version

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Amplified


For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.

Bible in Basic English

For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

Darby Translation

For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Julia Smith Translation

For he knew our formation; he remembered that we are dust.

King James 2000

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For he knows our frame. He remembers that we [are] dust.

Modern King James verseion

For He knows our form; He remembers that we are dust.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembereth that we are but dust;

NET Bible

For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

New Heart English Bible

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

The Emphasized Bible

For, he, knoweth how we are formed, He is mindful that, dust, we are.

Webster

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

World English Bible

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Youngs Literal Translation

For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we are dust.

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

The Forgiving God

13 Like as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him. 14 For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 7:5-7

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Job 7:21

And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

Job 13:25

Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?

Psalm 78:38-39

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Isaiah 29:16

Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay, that the thing made should say of him who made it, He did not make me, or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

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