Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah
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?
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.
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 what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind. 48 What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah 49 Where [are] your former acts of loyal love, O Lord, [that] you swore to David by your faithfulness?
Cross References
Psalm 49:15
Surely God will ransom my life from the {power} of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken up, so that he did not experience death, and he was not found, because God took him up. For before his removal, he had been approved {as having been pleasing} to God.
Job 30:23
Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.
Psalm 22:29
All [the] {healthy ones} of [the] earth will eat and worship. Before him all [of] those descending [into the] dust will kneel, even he [who] cannot keep his soul alive.
Psalm 49:7-9
Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
John 8:51
Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never experience death {forever}."
Acts 2:27
because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay.
2 Corinthians 4:14
[because we] know that the one who raised Jesus will also raise us together with Jesus and present [us] together with you.
Hebrews 9:27
And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,