Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

King James Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Holman Bible

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.

International Standard Version

I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

A Conservative Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

American Standard Version

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Amplified


I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.

Bible in Basic English

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

Darby Translation

I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

Julia Smith Translation

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

King James 2000

I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.

Modern King James verseion

As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.

NET Bible

I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

New Heart English Bible

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

The Emphasized Bible

As a shadow when it stretcheth out, I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust;

Webster

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

World English Bible

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Youngs Literal Translation

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

References

American

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer Against An Enemy

22 I am oppressed and needy. I feel pain in my heart. 23 I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.
24 My knees give way because I have been fasting. My body has become lean, without any fat.

Cross References

Exodus 10:19

Jehovah changed the wind to a very strong west wind. It picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

Exodus 10:13

Moses held his staff over the land of Egypt. Jehovah made a wind from the east blow over the land all that day and all that night. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

1 Chronicles 29:15

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

Job 14:2

He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.

Psalm 102:10-11

This is because of your indignation and your anger. You have lifted me up and cast me away.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

Things will not go well with the wicked. He will not prolong his days. His days are like a shadow. He does not respect God.

James 4:14

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

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