For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- BSB when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
- NKJV For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.
- NASB When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place no longer knows about it.
- NLT The wind blows, and we are gone— as though we had never been here.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
- Job 20:9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
- Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
- Job 7:6–10My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
- Job 8:18–19If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
- Job 27:20–21Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
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