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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,
A Conservative Version
As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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
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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 a
Phrases
Cross References
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
James 1:10-11
and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Job 14:1-3
Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim and to the open flower of the beauty of their glory which is upon the head of the fertile valley of those that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28:4
And the fading flower of the beauty of their glory, which is upon the head of the fertile valley, shall be as the early fig, which comes first before the other fruits of the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees it; as soon as he has it in his hand, he eats it up.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field:
Isaiah 51:12
I, even I, am he that comforts you. Who art thou that thou should be afraid of man that is mortal and of the son of man which shall be counted as stubble?
Nahum 1:4
He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed.