Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Like thick foliage on a spreading tree, with some leaves falling and others sprouting, so with the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like abundant leaves on a spreading tree that sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
Good News Translation®
Human beings are like leaves on a spreading tree. New growth takes the place of the fallen leaves; while some of us die, others are being born.
Wycliffe Bible
Each man shall wax eld [or old] as hay, and as a leaf bringing fruit in a green tree. Others be (en)gendered, and others be cast [or fall] down; so the generation of flesh and blood, another is ended, and another is born.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree which sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Like abundant leaves on a spreading tree that sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies, and another is born.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Like abundant leaves on a spreading tree that sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
Common English Bible © 2011
Like a budding leaf on a leafy tree, it sheds some and it puts forth others; so is a generation of flesh and blood; one dies, and another is born.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
As with the leaves growing on a luxuriant tree— one falls off and another sprouts— So with the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another flourishes.
Revised Standard Version
Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree which sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Like abundant leaves on a spreading tree that sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.