Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
As a
King James Version
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Holman Bible
he blooms like a flower of the field;
International Standard Version
A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,
A Conservative Version
As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
American Standard Version
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Amplified
As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Bible in Basic English
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Darby Translation
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
Julia Smith Translation
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
King James 2000
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
Modern King James verseion
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.
NET Bible
A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
New Heart English Bible
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
The Emphasized Bible
As for man, like grass, are his days, Like the blossom of the field, so, doth he blossom;
Webster
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
World English Bible
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
Themes
Endurance » What does not endure
Flowers » Illustrative of » Shortness of man's life
Grass » Illustrative » Of shortness and uncertainty of life
Man » A social being » As grass
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 103:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Forgiving God
14
He
As a
And its
Phrases
Cross References
1 Peter 1:24
For,
“
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,
James 1:10-11
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because
Job 14:1-3
Is
Psalm 90:5-6
In the morning they are like
Isaiah 28:1
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the
Of those who are
Isaiah 28:4
Which is at the head of the
Will be like the
Which
And
He swallows it.
Isaiah 40:6-8
Then
Isaiah 51:12
Who are you that you are afraid of
And of the son of man who is made
Nahum 1:4
He dries up all the rivers.
The blossoms of Lebanon wither.