PSA 90:10 Parallel View

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ULT Our years are seventy,
 ⇔ or even eighty if we are healthy;
 ⇔ but even our best years are marked by trouble and sorrow.
 ⇔ Yes, they pass quickly, and we fly away.

UST People live for only seventy years;
⇔ if they are strong, some of them live for eighty years.
 ⇔ But even during good years we have much pain and troubles;
⇔ our lives soon end, and we die.

BSB The length of our days is seventy years—
⇔ or eighty if we are strong—
 ⇔ yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
⇔ for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

OEB  ⇔ The span of our life is seventy years,
⇔ or, if we are strong, maybe eighty;
 ⇔ yet is their breadth but empty toil,
⇔ for swiftly they go, and we fly away.

WEB The days of our years are seventy,
⇔ or even by reason of strength eighty years;
⇔ yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
⇔ for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

NET The days of our lives add up to seventy years,
 ⇔ or eighty, if one is especially strong.
 ⇔ But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression.
 ⇔ Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

LSV The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years,
And if, by reason of might, eighty years,
Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity,
For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away.

FBV We live for seventy years—eighty if we have the strength. But even in the prime of life all that we have is hardship and suffering. Soon our lives are over and we're gone.

T4T People live for only 70 years;
⇔ but if they are strong, some of them live for 80 years.
 ⇔ But even during good years we have much pain and troubles;
⇔ our lives soon end, and we die [EUP].

LEB • are seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride[fn] is trouble and disaster, • for it passes quickly and we fly away.

?:? Or “span”

BBE The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

MOF Our life is seventy years at most,
⇔ or eighty at the best;
 ⇔ it is a span of toil and trouble,
⇔ soon over, and we flit away.

JPS The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.

ASV The days of our years are threescore years and ten,
 ⇔ Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
 ⇔ Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow;
 ⇔ For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

DRA There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.

YLT Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

DBY The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

RV The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but labour and sorrow; for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

WBS The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

KJB The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.[fn]
(The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.)

90.10 The days…: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years

BB The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength of nature men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it.
(The days of our years be in all threescore years and tenne, and if through strength of nature men come to four score years: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from us, and we flee from it.)

GNV The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.
(The time of our life is threescore years and ten, and if they be of strength, fourscore years: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away. )

CB The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone.
(The days of our age are iij. score years and ten: and though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score years, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it away, and we are gone.)

WYC Yuel schal not come to thee; and a scourge schal not neiye to thi tabernacle.
(Yuel shall not come to thee; and a scourge shall not neiye to thy/your tabernacle.)

LUT Unser Leben währet siebenzig Jahre, und wenn‘s hoch kommt, so sind‘s achtzig Jahre; und wenn‘s köstlich gewesen ist, so ist‘s Mühe und Arbeit gewesen; denn es fähret schnell dahin, als flögen wir davon.
(Unser life währet siebenzig years, and wenn‘s hoch kommt, so sind‘s achtzig years; and wenn‘s köstlich been is, so ist‘s Mühe and Arbeit gewesen; because it fähret schnell dahin, als flögen wir davon.)

CLV Non accedet ad te malum, et flagellum non appropinquabit tabernaculo tuo.[fn]
(Non accedet to you(sg) malum, and flagellum not/no appropinquabit tabernaculo tuo.)

90.10 ID. Tabernaculum Dei est caro, etc., usque ad Christo hoc bene accipitur.

90.10 ID. Tabernaculum God it_is caro, etc., usque to Christo hoc bene accipitur.

BRN No evils shall come upon thee, and no scourge shall draw nigh to thy dwelling.

BrLXX Οὐ προσελεύσεται πρὸς σὲ κακὰ, καὶ μάστιξ οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ τῷ σκηνώματί σου.
(Ou proseleusetai pros se kaka, kai mastix ouk engiei tōi skaʸnōmati sou. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-numbers

seventy

(Some words not found in UHB: days_of life,our in/among=them seventy year and=if in/on/at/with,strength eighty year and,span,their trouble and,sorrow that/for/because/then/when gone quickly and,fly_away, )

“70”

Note 2 topic: translate-numbers

eighty

“80”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

even our best years are marked by trouble and sorrow

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Even in our best years we experience trouble and sorrow”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism

we fly away

This is a polite way of referring to people dying. Alternate translation: “we die”

Parallel PSA 90:10