Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Or if due to strength,
Yet their pride is but
For soon it is gone and we
King James Version
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Holman Bible
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
International Standard Version
We live for 70 years, or 80 years if we're healthy, yet even in the prime years there are troubles and sorrow. They pass by quickly and we fly away.
A Conservative Version
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
American Standard Version
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Amplified
The days of our life are
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.
Darby Translation
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Julia Smith Translation
The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.
King James 2000
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].
Modern King James verseion
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
NET Bible
The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
New Heart English Bible
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
The Emphasized Bible
The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.
Webster
The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
World English Bible
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Youngs Literal Translation
Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
Themes
human Limitations » Man subject to » Time limited
Man » Limitations of » Time limited
Topics
References
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 90:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eternal God And Mortal Man
9
Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.
10
Or if due to strength,
Yet their pride is but
For soon it is gone and we
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:35
I am already eighty years old. Nothing gives me pleasure any more. I cannot taste what I eat and drink. I cannot hear the voices of singers. I would only be a burden to my lord the king.
Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.
1 Kings 1:1
Now King David was old and advanced in years. They put covers over him but he could not get warm.
Job 14:10
On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more!
Job 20:8
He flies away like a dream banished like a vision of the night. He cannot be found!
Job 24:24
They are exalted a little while, and then are gone. They wither and fade like everything gathered up. They are cut off like the heads of grain.
Ecclesiastes 12:2-7
Before the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after the rain:
Isaiah 38:12
My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'
James 4:14
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.