Psalm 89:48
Modern Translations
New International Version
Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?

New Living Translation
No one can live forever; all will die. No one can escape the power of the grave. Interlude

English Standard Version
What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Berean Study Bible
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

New American Standard Bible
What man can live and not see death? Can he save his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

NASB 1995
What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

NASB 1977
What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Amplified Bible
What man can live and not see death? Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
What courageous person can live and never see death? Who can save himself from the power of Sheol? Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What man can live and never see death? Who can save himself from the power of Sheol? Selah

Contemporary English Version
No one can escape the power of death and the grave.

Good News Translation
Who can live and never die? How can we humans keep ourselves from the grave?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Can a mortal go on living and never see death? Who can set himself free from the power of the grave? [Selah]

International Standard Version
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude

NET Bible
No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

New King James Version
What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? Selah

King James 2000 Bible
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

New Heart English Bible
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

World English Bible
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

American King James Version
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

American Standard Version
What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

A Faithful Version
What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Darby Bible Translation
What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

English Revised Version
What man is he that shall live and not see death, that shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Webster's Bible Translation
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(89:47) What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death? can he delyuer his owne soule from the hande of hell? Selah.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
What man is he that lyueth, and shal not se death? Maye a ma delyuer his owne soule from the honde of hell?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Who [is] the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

Smith's Literal Translation
What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Who is the man who will live and will not see death and will save his soul from the hand of Sheol?

Lamsa Bible
Who is the man who lives and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
What man is he that liveth and shall not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah

Brenton Septuagint Translation
What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.
















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