Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
New American Standard Bible
Can he
King James Version
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Holman Bible
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?
International Standard Version
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
American Standard Version
What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Amplified
What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.
Bible in Basic English
What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
Darby Translation
What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence.
King James 2000
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah
Modern King James verseion
What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.
NET Bible
No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Who is the man that shall live, and not see death? That can deliver his soul from the hand of hades. Selah.
Webster
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
World English Bible
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 89:48
Verse Info
Context Readings
Perplexity About God's Promises
47 O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men! 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. 49 LORD, where are thy former loving kindnesses, which thou swore to David in thy faithfulness?
Cross References
Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was transferred to not see death, and he was not found, because God transferred him. For before his removal he was reported to be pleasing to God.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 22:29
All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
Psalm 49:7-9
none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
John 8:51
Truly, truly, I say to you, if any man keeps my word, he will, no, not see death, into the age.
Acts 2:27
Because thou will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will thou give thy Holy man to see decay.
2 Corinthians 4:14
knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus, and will present us with you.
Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,