Verse 4

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

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.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

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• 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.

• 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 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
• Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
• Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.
• Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
• Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
• Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.
• Job 14:1-3 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue. 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?
• Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
• Ps 39:11 : 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
• Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
• Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?
• Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.
• 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.
• 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
• Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?