Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm.

New American Standard Bible

For there are no pains in their death,
And their body is fat.

King James Version

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Holman Bible

They have an easy time until they die,
and their bodies are well fed.

International Standard Version

For there is no struggle at their deaths, and their bodies are healthy.

American Standard Version

For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.

Amplified


For there are no pains in their death,
Their body is fat and pampered.

Bible in Basic English

For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

Darby Translation

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

Julia Smith Translation

For not the pains to their death, and their body fat

King James 2000

For there are no pains in their death: but their strength is firm.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

Modern King James verseion

For there are no bands in their death; but their strength is fat.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For they are in no peril of death, but stand fast like a palace.

NET Bible

For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.

New Heart English Bible

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

The Emphasized Bible

For they have no pangs in their death, And vigorous is their body;

Webster

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

World English Bible

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

Youngs Literal Translation

And their might is firm.

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Fat

Context Readings

God's Ways Vindicated

3 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as [other] men, nor are they plagued like [other] men.

Cross References

Job 21:23-24

One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 24:20

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Psalm 17:10

They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalm 17:14

from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.

Luke 16:22

And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the heavenly agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried.

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