Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

A Conservative Version

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

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 As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers. 14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Job 7:5-7

My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

Job 7:21

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

Job 10:9

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 13:25

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Psalm 78:38-39

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

Psalm 89:47

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Isaiah 29:16

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

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