Parallel Verses

Amplified


For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

New American Standard Bible

For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

King James Version

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

Holman Bible

For my days vanish like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.

International Standard Version

For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

A Conservative Version

For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

American Standard Version

For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Darby Translation

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Julia Smith Translation

For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.

King James 2000

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.

Modern King James verseion

For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

NET Bible

For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

New Heart English Bible

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.

The Emphasized Bible

For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through;

Webster

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

World English Bible

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Youngs Literal Translation

For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

References

Easton

Hastings

Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

2
Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call, answer me quickly.
3 
For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
4
My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.


Cross References

James 4:14

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

Job 30:30


“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,
And my bones are burned with fever.

Psalm 37:20


But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke],
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Lamentations 1:13


“From on high He sent fire into my bones,
And it prevailed over them.
He has spread a net for my feet;
He has turned me back.
He has made me desolate and hopelessly miserable,
Faint all the day long.

Psalm 31:10


For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And even my body has wasted away.

Psalm 22:14-15


I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
It is melted [by anguish] within me.

Psalm 38:3


There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 119:83


For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs],
Yet I do not forget Your statutes.

Lamentations 3:4


He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;
He has shattered my bones.

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