Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

New American Standard Bible

For my soul has had enough troubles,
And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

King James Version

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Holman Bible

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

International Standard Version

For my life is filled with troubles as I approach Sheol.

A Conservative Version

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

American Standard Version

For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

Amplified


For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).

Darby Translation

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

Julia Smith Translation

For my soul was filled with evils, and my life touched upon hades.

King James 2000

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.

Modern King James verseion

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near the grave.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell.

NET Bible

For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.

New Heart English Bible

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

The Emphasized Bible

For my soul, is sated with misfortunes, And, my life - unto Hades, hath drawn near;

Webster

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

World English Bible

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

Youngs Literal Translation

For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

Context Readings

A Cry Of Desperation

2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry: 3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

Cross References

Psalm 107:18

They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

Job 6:2-4

If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

Job 33:22

And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

Psalm 22:11-21

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

Psalm 69:17-21

Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-15

Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

Psalm 107:26

The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

Isaiah 53:3

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

Isaiah 53:10-11

And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ... will do well in his hand. ...

Lamentations 3:15-19

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Matthew 26:37-39

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.

Mark 14:33-34

And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.

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