Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
New American Standard Bible
For what
King James Version
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Holman Bible
Have You created everyone for nothing?
International Standard Version
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!
A Conservative Version
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
American Standard Version
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Amplified
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
Bible in Basic English
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
Darby Translation
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
Julia Smith Translation
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
King James 2000
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.
Modern King James verseion
Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?
NET Bible
Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
New Heart English Bible
Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men.
The Emphasized Bible
Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?
Webster
Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?
World English Bible
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
Themes
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
natural Life » Described as » Short
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 89:47
Verse Info
Context Readings
Perplexity About God's Promises
46 Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire? 47 Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? 48 Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
Cross References
Job 7:7
Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
Job 10:9
Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
Job 14:1
Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Job 9:25-26
My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,
Psalm 39:5-6
Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.
Psalm 119:84
How many are the days of Thy servant? When dost Thou execute Against my pursuers judgment?
Psalm 144:4
Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.
James 4:14
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;