For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Parallel translations
- KJV For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- BSB For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- NKJV For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
- NASB For my days have ended in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
- NLT For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 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.
- Lam 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all day long.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
- Ps 37:20But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish — vanish like smoke.
- Ps 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
- Ps 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
- Ps 22:14–15I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- Lam 3:4He has made my flesh and my skin old; he has broken my bones.
- Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
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