Parallel Verses

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.

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 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. 14 For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you 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 dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

Job 13:25

Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Psalm 78:38-39

Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Isaiah 29:16

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

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