Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
New American Standard Bible
Can he
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
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 89:48
Verse Info
Context Readings
Perplexity About God's Promises
47 Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings! 48 What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude 49 Where is your gracious love of old, Lord, that in your faithfulness you promised to David?
Cross References
Psalm 49:15
God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken away without experiencing death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he won approval as one who pleased God.
Job 30:23
I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."
Psalm 22:29
All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission. All those who are about to go down to the grave will bow down in submission, along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive.
Psalm 49:7-9
No man can redeem the life of another, nor can he give to God a sufficient payment for him
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.
John 8:51
Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."
Acts 2:27
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.
2 Corinthians 4:14
We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to God together with you.
Hebrews 9:27
Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,