Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone.

New American Standard Bible

So He brought their days to an end in futility
And their years in sudden terror.

King James Version

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Holman Bible

He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.

International Standard Version

So he made their days end in futility, and their years with sudden terror.

A Conservative Version

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

American Standard Version

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

Amplified


Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Julia Smith Translation

And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

King James 2000

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble.

NET Bible

So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

The Emphasized Bible

So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!

Webster

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

World English Bible

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Youngs Literal Translation

And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

32 But for all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone. 34 When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God.

Cross References

Numbers 14:29

Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me

Numbers 14:35

I, the LORD, have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die."

Numbers 26:64-65

And among these there was not a man of the number of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron told in the wilderness of Sinai.

Genesis 3:16-19

And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee."

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

The space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we were come over the river Zered was thirty eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out of the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

Job 5:6-7

"It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground;

Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

Psalm 90:7-9

For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14

applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

All is but vanity - sayeth the preacher - all is but plain vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

Let us hear the conclusion of all things: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that toucheth all men;

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