Verse 4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Mennesket er som en vindpust, hans dager er som en skygge som farer forbi.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Mennesket ligner på forfengelighet; hans dager er som en skygge som forsvinner.

• Norsk King James

  Mennesket er som tomhet; hans dager er som en skygge som forsvinner.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Mennesket er lik tomheten, hans dager er som en flyktig skygge.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Mennesket er som et pust, hans dager som en svinnende skygge.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Mennesket er lik forfengelighet: hans dager er som en skygge som svinner bort.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Mennesket er som tomhet; hans dager er som en flyktig skygge som forsvinner.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Mennesket er lik forfengelighet: hans dager er som en skygge som svinner bort.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Mennesket er som en pust, hans dager er som en flyktig skygge.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Mennesket er som et pust, hans dager er som en skygge som farer forbi.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Et Menneske er ligt Forfængeligheden, hans Dage ere som en Skygge, der farer forbi.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Mennesket er som tomhet; hans dager er som en skygge som svinner bort.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Mennesket er som et pust. Hans dager er som en skygge som går forbi.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Mennesket er som vindpust, hans dager er som en skygge som glir forbi.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Mennesket er som tomhet; hans dager er som en skygge som passerer bort.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Mennesket er som et pust: hans liv er som en skygge som raskt forsvinner.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 102:11 : 11 Because of your wrath and indignation, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
• Job 8:9 : 9 for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
• Ps 109:23 : 23 I am fading away like a shadow at sunset; I am shaken off like a locust.
• Eccl 1:2 : 2 “Utterly meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
• Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun; they are all meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
• Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.
• Eccl 12:8 : 8 'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'
• Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble. 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure. 3 Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
• Ps 39:5-6 : 5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is. 6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
• Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
• Ps 62:9 : 9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 89:47 : 47 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?
• Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. 16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
• 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him.
• 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!