Psalm 102:3
 Psalm 102:3 
New International Version (© 2011)
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

Psalm 102:3 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

My days are consumed like smoke - He represents himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the notion of a pile of combustible matter, placed upon a fire, which soon consumes it; part flying away in smoke, and the residue lying on the hearth in the form of charred coal and ashes. The Chaldeans were the fire, and the captive Jews the fuel, thus converted into smoke and ashes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

my days

Psalm 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume...

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time...

like smoke. or, as some read into smoke
my bones

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 in the middle of my bowels...

Psalm 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Psalm 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Job 30:30 My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Lamentations 1:13 From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back...

Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

Psalm 102:3 Parallel Commentaries
Bones Burn Burned Consume Consumed Embers Fire Firebrand Fire-Brand Furnace Glowing Hearth Scorched Smoke Vanish Wasted
Bones Burn Burned Consume Consumed Embers Fire Firebrand Fire-Brand Furnace Glowing Hearth Scorched Smoke Vanish Wasted
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James 4:14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
Psalm 31:10 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.
Psalm 37:20 But the wicked will perish: Though the LORD's enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
Psalm 38:7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
Lamentations 1:13 "From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.