Psalm 49:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them--

New Living Translation
Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.

English Standard Version
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,

Berean Study Bible
No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

New American Standard Bible
No one can by any means redeem another Or give God a ransom for him—

NASB 1995
No man can by any means redeem his brother Or give to God a ransom for him--

NASB 1977
No man can by any means redeem his brother, Or give to God a ransom for him—

Amplified Bible
None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him—

Christian Standard Bible
Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God —

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God--

Contemporary English Version
You cannot buy back your life or pay off God!

Good News Translation
We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
No one can ever buy back another person or pay God a ransom for his life.

International Standard Version
No man can redeem the life of another, nor can he give to God a sufficient payment for him—

NET Bible
Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
Classic Translations
King James Bible
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

New King James Version
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him—

King James 2000 Bible
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

New Heart English Bible
Truly these cannot redeem a person, nor give to God a ransom for him.

World English Bible
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

American King James Version
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

American Standard Version
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him;

A Faithful Version
No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him--

Darby Bible Translation
None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,

English Revised Version
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Webster's Bible Translation
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Yet a man can by no meanes redeeme his brother: he can not giue his raunsome to God,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But no man at all can redeeme his brother: nor geue a raunsome vnto God for hym.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
No man maye deliuer his brother, ner make agrement for him vnto God.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A brother ransoms no one at all, "" He does not give to God his atonement.

Young's Literal Translation
A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

Smith's Literal Translation
A man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

Catholic Public Domain Version
no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A brother does not save, and a man does not give God his redemption.

Lamsa Bible
A brother cannot save a brother, nor can a man give to God a ransom for himself;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
No man can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him--

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,
















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