Verse 20

Man that is in honor, and does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  skal han gå til sine forfedre, som aldri skal se lyset.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Mennesket som er i heder og ikke forstår, er som dyrene som forgår.

• Norsk King James

  Mennesket som lever i ære, men ikke forstår, er som dyrene som går til grunne.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  så vil han likevel gå til sine fedres slekt, som aldri skal se lyset.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  skal han gå til sine fedres generasjon, og de skal aldri mer se lyset.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Mennesket, som er i ære, men ikke forstår, ligner dyrene som omkommer.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  En mann i ære, men uten innsikt, er som dyr som omkommer.

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

  Mennesket, som er i ære, men ikke forstår, ligner dyrene som omkommer.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  skal han komme til sine forfedres generasjon. De skal aldri se lyset.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They will go to the generation of their fathers; they will never see the light again.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  skal han gå til sine forfedres generasjon; de skal aldri se lys igjen.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  (saa) skal den (dog) komme til sine Fædres Slægt, som i Evighed ikke skulle see Lyset.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  En mann som er i ære, men ikke forstår, er som dyrene som går til grunne.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  En mann som har rikdom uten forstand, er som dyrene som går til grunne.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Mennesket i ære, men uten forstand, er lik dyrene som går under!

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Mennesket som er i ære og ikke forstår, Er lik dyrene som omkommer.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Mennesket, som dyrene, lever ikke evig; han går mot slutten som dyrene.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  When a man is in honoure and hath no vnderstodinge, he is compared vnto the brute beastes, and becommeth like vnto them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  A man is in an honourable state, but he wyll not vnderstande it: he is lyke herein vnto bruite beastes that perishe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  A man who has riches without understanding, Is like the animals that perish.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

• World English Bible (2000)

  A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 49:12 : 12 Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.
• Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
• Eccl 3:18-19 : 18 I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are like beasts. 19 For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.
• Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger subsided.
• Job 4:21 : 21 Does not their excellence which is in them vanish away? They die, even without wisdom.
• Esth 5:11-14 : 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. 12 Haman said moreover, Yes, Queen Esther did let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared, but myself; and tomorrow I am invited to her also with the king. 13 Yet all this profits me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 14 Then Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And this pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.