Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

King James Version

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Holman Bible

What man can live and never see death?
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

International Standard Version

What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude

A Conservative Version

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

American Standard Version

What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Amplified


What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

Bible in Basic English

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

Darby Translation

What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence.

King James 2000

What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah

Modern King James verseion

What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.

NET Bible

No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

Who is the man that shall live, and not see death? That can deliver his soul from the hand of hades. Selah.

Webster

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

World English Bible

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Perplexity About God's Promises

47 Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? 48 Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah. 49 Where are Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,


Cross References

Psalm 49:15

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

Job 30:23

For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 22:29

And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul.

Psalm 49:7-9

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

John 8:51

verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'

Acts 2:27

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

Hebrews 9:27

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

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