My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Parallel translations
- KJV My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- BSB My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- NKJV My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
- NASB My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
- NLT My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.
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- Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
- Ps 109:23I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
- 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
- Ps 144:4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
- Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
- Isa 40:6–8The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
- Jas 1:10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
- Ps 39:5–6Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
- Ps 102:3–4For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Eccl 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
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