Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

New American Standard Bible

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

King James Version

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Holman Bible

“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

International Standard Version

"Your ancestors where are they? And the prophets do they live forever?

A Conservative Version

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

American Standard Version

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Amplified

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Bible in Basic English

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

Darby Translation

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Julia Smith Translation

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?

King James 2000

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Modern King James verseion

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?

NET Bible

"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

New Heart English Bible

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

The Emphasized Bible

Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age-abiding, do they live?

Webster

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Youngs Literal Translation

Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נביא 
Nabiy' 
Usage: 315

do they live
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

Context Readings

A Plea For Repentance

4 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"

Cross References

Job 14:10-12

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Psalm 90:10

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

John 8:52

Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Hebrews 7:23-24

Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

Hebrews 9:27

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

2 Peter 3:2-4

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

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