Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
New American Standard Bible
For what
King James Version
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Holman Bible
Have You created everyone for nothing?
International Standard Version
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!
A Conservative Version
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
American Standard Version
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Amplified
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
Bible in Basic English
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
Darby Translation
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
King James 2000
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.
Modern King James verseion
Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?
NET Bible
Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
New Heart English Bible
Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men.
The Emphasized Bible
Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?
Webster
Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?
World English Bible
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
Youngs Literal Translation
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
Themes
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
natural Life » Described as » Short
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 89:47
Verse Info
Context Readings
Perplexity About God's Promises
46 How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn as fire? 47 Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man? 48 What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence.
Cross References
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is wind: mine eyes shall not turn back to see good
Job 10:9
Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.
Job 14:1
Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet
Job 9:25-26
My days were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 119:84
How many the days of thy servant? when wilt thou do judgment upon them pursuing me?
Psalm 144:4
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
James 4:14
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)