Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence.

New American Standard Bible

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

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

What man can live and never see death?
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

International Standard Version

What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude

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.

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.

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.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Perplexity About God's Promises

47 Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man? 48 What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence. 49 Where thy former mercies, O Jehovah, thou didst sware to David in thy faithfulness?

Cross References

Psalm 49:15

But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hades, for he will receive me. Silence.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was transferred not to see death; and was not found, because God had transferred him: for before his transferring he had been testified of, to have pleased God.

Job 30:23

For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.

Psalm 22:29

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship before him, and all they going down to dust shall bow down, and he preserved not alive his soul.

Psalm 49:7-9

A man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom:

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.

John 8:51

Truly, truly, I say to you, If any keep my word, he should never see death.

Acts 2:27

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hades neither wilt thou give thy sanctified one to see corruption.

2 Corinthians 4:14

Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:

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