Other translations
American Standard Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My days have declined like the shadow and I have withered like the grass!
Darby Bible Translation
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
God's Word
My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.
International Standard Version
My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.
NET Bible
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
New American Standard Bible
My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
New International Version
My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
New Living Translation
My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.
Webster's Bible Translation
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
The World English Bible
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
EasyEnglish Bible
My days are disappearing, like a shadow in the evening. Like dry grass, I will soon die.
Young‘s Literal Translation
My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
New Life Version
My days are like the evening shadow. I dried up like grass.
The Voice Bible
My days go by like a long shadow—stretched thin and disappearing— I shrivel up like grass baked in the hot sun.
Living Bible
My life is passing swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering like grass,
New Catholic Bible
Because of your indignation and wrath, you have raised me up only to cast me down.
Legacy Standard Bible
My days are like an outstretched shadow, And as for me, I dry up like grass.
Jubilee Bible 2000
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
Christian Standard Bible
My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.
Amplified Bible © 1954
My days are like an evening shadow that stretches out and declines [with the sun]; and I am withered like grass.
New Century Version
My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.
The Message
I’m wasting away to nothing, I’m burning up with fever. I’m a ghost of my former self, half-consumed already by terminal illness. My jaws ache from gritting my teeth; I’m nothing but skin and bones. I’m like a buzzard in the desert, a crow perched on the rubble. Insomniac, I twitter away, mournful as a sparrow in the gutter. All day long my enemies taunt me, while others just curse. They bring in meals—casseroles of ashes! I draw drink from a barrel of my tears. And all because of your furious anger; you swept me up and threw me out. There’s nothing left of me— a withered weed, swept clean from the path.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
My days are being stretched out like a shadow, and I am dried up like grass.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Good News Translation®
My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass.
Wycliffe Bible
My days bowed away as a shadow; and I waxed dry as hay. (My days disappeared like a shadow; and I am dried up like the hay, or the grass.)
Contemporary English Version
My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither away like grass.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Common English Bible © 2011
My days are like a shadow soon gone. I’m dried up like dead grass.
Amplified Bible © 2015
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun]; And as for me, I wither away like grass.
English Standard Version Anglicised
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Because of your furious wrath, you lifted me up just to cast me down.
New American Standard Bible
My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
The Expanded Bible
My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.
Tree of Life Version
because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.
Revised Standard Version
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
New International Reader's Version
The days of my life are like an evening shadow. I dry up like grass.
BRG Bible
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Complete Jewish Bible
because of your furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
My days are like a tzel (shadow) that lengtheneth; and I am withered like esev (grass).
Names of God Bible
My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.
Modern English Version
My days are like an evening shadow that vanishes, and I wither away like grass.
Easy-to-Read Version
My life is almost finished, like the long shadows at the end of the day. I am like dry and dying grass.
International Children’s Bible
My days are like a passing shadow. I am like dried grass.
Lexham English Bible
My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
New International Version - UK
My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.