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Bible in Basic English

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

New American Standard Bible

For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.

King James Version

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Holman Bible

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief
and my years with groaning;
my strength has failed
because of my sinfulness,
and my bones waste away.

International Standard Version

My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

A Conservative Version

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.

American Standard Version

For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

Amplified


For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And even my body has wasted away.

Darby Translation

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

Julia Smith Translation

For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.

King James 2000

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

Modern King James verseion

For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For my life is waxen old with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

NET Bible

For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

New Heart English Bible

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

The Emphasized Bible

For, consumed with sorrow, is my life, and my years with sighing, - My strength hath staggered with my humiliation, and, my bones, are without marrow.

Webster

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

World English Bible

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Youngs Literal Translation

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

References

Watsons

Prayers for Psalm 31:10

Context Readings

A Plea For Protection

9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body. 10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away. 11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

Cross References

Job 3:24

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

Psalm 13:2

How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Psalm 39:11

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Psalm 71:9

Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

Psalm 78:33

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

Psalm 88:15

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

Romans 9:2

That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

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