Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
New American Standard Bible
As a
King James Version
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Holman Bible
he blooms like a flower of the field;
International Standard Version
A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,
American Standard Version
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Amplified
As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Bible in Basic English
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Darby Translation
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
Julia Smith Translation
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
King James 2000
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
Modern King James verseion
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.
NET Bible
A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
New Heart English Bible
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
The Emphasized Bible
As for man, like grass, are his days, Like the blossom of the field, so, doth he blossom;
Webster
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
World English Bible
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
Themes
Endurance » What does not endure
Flowers » Illustrative of » Shortness of man's life
Grass » Illustrative » Of shortness and uncertainty of life
Man » A social being » As grass
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 103:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Forgiving God
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. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Peter 1:24
Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,
James 1:10-11
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.
Job 14:1-3
Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28:4
And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer, which, when he who looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field.
Isaiah 51:12
I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,
Nahum 1:4
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.