Psalm 89:47
Modern Translations
New International Version
Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

New Living Translation
Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!

English Standard Version
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Berean Study Bible
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

New American Standard Bible
Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!

NASB 1995
Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

NASB 1977
Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity Thou hast created all the sons of men!

Amplified Bible
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is; For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!

Christian Standard Bible
Remember how short my life is. Have you created everyone for nothing?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Remember how short my life is. Have You created everyone for nothing?

Contemporary English Version
Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?

Good News Translation
Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Remember how short my life is! Have you created Adam's descendants for no reason?

International Standard Version
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

NET Bible
Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

New King James Version
Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

King James 2000 Bible
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

New Heart English Bible
Remember how short my time is. Have you created the descendants of Adam for no reason?

World English Bible
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

American King James Version
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

American Standard Version
Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

A Faithful Version
Remember how short my time is; for what vanity have You created the sons of men?

Darby Bible Translation
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

English Revised Version
O remember how short my time is: for what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Webster's Bible Translation
Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(89:46) Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
O remembre how shorte my tyme is, hast thou made all men for naught?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain "" All the sons of men?

Young's Literal Translation
Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Smith's Literal Translation
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Remember me from the pit, because it is not for nothing that you have created all the children of men!

Lamsa Bible
Remember me from the time I was created; for thou hast not created all men in vain.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
O remember how short my time is; For what vanity hast Thou created all the children of men!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?
















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