Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
In the
They are together lighter than breath.
King James Version
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Holman Bible
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.
International Standard Version
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
A Conservative Version
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
American Standard Version
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
Amplified
Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion).
In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value];
They are together lighter than a breath.
Bible in Basic English
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
Darby Translation
Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.
Julia Smith Translation
Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.
King James 2000
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.
Modern King James verseion
Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
NET Bible
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
New Heart English Bible
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.
Webster
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
World English Bible
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.
Themes
Emptiness » Emptiness or vanity of the worldly life (ps 3911; 629)
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 62:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Trust In God Alone
8
Wait in him at all times; ye peoples, pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah.
9
In the
They are together lighter than breath.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.
Isaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he causes the isles to disappear as dust.
Isaiah 40:17
All the Gentiles are as nothing before him, and they are counted to him as vanity and as less than nothing.
Psalm 39:11
When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.
1 Samuel 18:5
And David went out wherever Saul sent him and behaved himself prudently, and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's slaves.
1 Samuel 18:7
And the women sang as they played and said, Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel 18:21-26
And Saul said, I will give her to him that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore, Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law with the other one.
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
1 Samuel 23:19-20
Then those of Ziph came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the woods in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the right hand side of the wilderness?
1 Samuel 26:21-25
Then Saul said, I have sinned; return, my son David; for I will do no more harm unto thee because my life was precious in thine eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly.
2 Samuel 15:6
And Absalom did according to this manner with all Israel that came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of those of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:31
And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into folly.
Psalm 55:13-14
But it was thou, who in my estimation was, my lord, and of my own family.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Psalm 118:9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.
Matthew 21:9
And the people that went before and that followed, cried out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
John 19:15
But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The high priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
Romans 3:4
No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.