PSA 144:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX (PSA 143:4) Ἄνθρωπος ματαιότητι ὡμοιώθη, αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ σκιὰ παράγουσι.
(Anthrōpos mataiotaʸti hōmoiōthaʸ, hai haʸmerai autou hōsei skia paragousi.)

ULT Man compares to vapor;
⇔ his days, are like a passing shadow.

UST People live for only a very short time,
⇔ just as a mist or a shadow quickly disappears.

BSB & MSB Man is like a breath;
⇔ his days are like a passing shadow.

OEB They are like a breath,
⇔ their days as a shadow that passes.

WEBBE & WMBB Man is like a breath.
⇔ His days are like a shadow that passes away.

NET People are like a vapor,
⇔ their days like a shadow that disappears.

LSV Man has been like a breath,
His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

FBV Humanity is like a breath; their lives are like a passing shadow.

T4T The time that we live is as short as [SIM] a puff of wind;
⇔ our time to live disappears like a shadow does.

LEB • Humankind is like a breath,
• his days like a passing shadow.

BBE Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Moff Man is like a passing breath,
⇔ his days are like a flitting shadow.]]

JPS Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

ASV Man is like to vanity:
⇔ His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

DRA (PSA 143:4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

YLT Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

Drby Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

RV Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
(Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth/passes away.)

SLT Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

Wbstr Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

KJB-1769 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
(Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth/passes away.)

KJB-1611 Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
(Man is like a thing of naught/nothing: his days be like a shadow that passeth/passes away.)

Gnva Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
(Man is like to vanity: his days are like a shadow, that vanisheth.)

Cvdl Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.
(Man is like a thing of naught/nothing, his time passeth/passes away like a shadow.)

Wycl (PSA 143:4) A man is maad lijk vanyte; hise daies passen as schadow.
(A man is made like vanity; his days pass as shadow.)

Luth Ist doch der Mensch gleichwie nichts; seine Zeit fähret dahin wie ein Schatten.
(Is though/but the/of_the person same_as nothing; his time/period drives/rides/runs gone as/like a shadow/shade.)

ClVg (PSA 143:4) Homo vanitati similis factus est; dies ejus sicut umbra prætereunt.[fn]
(Man in_vain similar became it_is; days his/her like shadow they_pass_by.)

143.4 Vanitati similis factus est: dies ejus sicut umbra. ID. Quando homo conditus est, veritati similis factus est, vanitati peccando. Vana sunt omnia transitoria, comparatione semper manentis veritatis. CAS. Vanum est, quod de sua substantia cadens vanescit: ut fumus, ut umbra. Ita et ipse homo tabescit, unde subdit, Dies ejus, id est vita ejus notoria, id est transitoria, sic præterit sicut umbra.

143.4 In_vain similar became it_is: days his/her like shadow. ID. When man founded it_is, to_the_truth similar became it_is, in_vain by_sinning. Vain/Empty are everything transitory, comparison always staying to_the_truths. CAS. In_vain it_is, that from/about his_own substance falling vanishes: as smoke/steam, as shadow. So/thus and exactly_that/himself man melts, from_where/who I_submit, The_day his/her, that it_is life his/her well_known, that it_is transitory, so passed like shadow.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אָ֭דָם לַ⁠הֶ֣בֶל דָּמָ֑ה

humankind (to,breath (Some words not found in UHB: humankind (to,breath like his/its=days [are]_like,a_shadow passing )

David is speaking of Man as if he were vapor, something that appears briefly and then is gone. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [A person is like a puff of smoke]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

אָ֭דָם

humankind

Although the term Man is masculine, David is using the word in a generic sense that includes both men and women. Alternate translation: [A person]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

יָ֝מָ֗י⁠ו כְּ⁠צֵ֣ל עוֹבֵֽר

his/its=days (Some words not found in UHB: humankind (to,breath like his/its=days [are]_like,a_shadow passing )

David uses a comparison to express how quickly a person’s days pass. He says they are like a passing shadow, something that quickly moves and vanishes. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent comparison or express this meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [his days pass quickly]

Parallel PSA 144:4