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

New Living Translation (©2007)
For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

NET Bible (©2006)
For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Because my days are finished in smoke and my bones are white as if they were burnt!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
My days disappear like smoke. My bones burn like hot coals.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

American King James Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

Darby Bible Translation
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

English Revised Version
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Webster's Bible Translation
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

World English Bible
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

102:1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them present it to God. Even good men may be almost overwhelmed with afflictions. It is our duty and interest to pray; and it is comfort to an afflicted spirit to unburden itself, by a humble representation of its griefs. We must say, Blessed be the name of the Lord, who both gives and takes away. The psalmist looked upon himself as a dying man; My days are like a shadow.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - For my days are consumed like smoke; or, according to another reading (בעשׁר, instead of כעשׁר), "are consumed into smoke," i.e. "disappear, pass away into nothingness." And my bones are burned as an hearth. Dr. Kay translates, "My bones smoulder like a firebrand," which is better (compare the Prayer book Version, and see Leviticus 6:2 and Isaiah 33:14). (For the sentiment, see Psalm 31:10; Psalm 32:3; Psalm 42:10.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For my days are consumed like smoke,.... Which suddenly rises up, is easily dissipated, and quickly disappears; so sudden, short, and transient, are the days of man's life; see James 4:14 or "in smoke" (c), as the Syriac version; his days were spent in great obscurity, in the darkness of affliction, temptation, and desertion; and in so much vexation, trouble, and uneasiness, as if he had lived in smoke all his time: and

my bones are burnt as an hearth; on which fire is continually made for the preparation of food, and other uses: or as a "trivet", or "gridiron": so the Targum: or as a frying pan; so the Arabic version: the meaning is, that, through trouble and grief, his bones, the strongest parts of his body, the props and supports of it, were so weakened and enfeebled, the strength of them so exhausted, that they were as if they had been parched and burnt up, as the hearth by fire; see Proverbs 17:22.

(c) "in fumo", Montanus.

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Do Not Hide Your Face from Me
1Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to you. 2Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear to me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. …

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.
Lamentations 3:4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:8 But now they are blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.