PSA 62:9 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Humans are nothing but a puff of wind.
⇔ ≈ They don’t weigh much on the scales.
⇔ → Even when weighed together, they’re lighter than air.

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 Ἐκολλήθη ἡ ψυχή μου ὀπίσω σου, ἐμοῦ ἀντελάβετο ἡ δεξιά σου.
(Ekollaʸthaʸ haʸ psuⱪaʸ mou opisō sou, emou antelabeto haʸ dexia sou.)

ULT Surely men of low standing are vanity, and men of high standing are a lie;
⇔ they will weigh lightly in the scales;
⇔ weighed together, they are lighter than nothing.

UST Certainly, ordinary people lack the power to help,
⇔ and important people are not as powerful as they seem.
⇔ If you put them all on a scale,
⇔ it would be as if they weighed less than air.

BSB Lowborn men [are] but a vapor;
⇔ the exalted [are] but a lie.
⇔ Weighed on the scale, they go up;
⇔ together they are but a vapor.

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB ⇔ The lowly are nought but a breath,
⇔ the lofty are but an illusion:
⇔ in the balances up they go,
⇔ they are lighter than breath altogether.

WEBBE Surely men of low degree are just a breath,
⇔ and men of high degree are a lie.
⇔ In the balances they will go up.
⇔ They are together lighter than a breath.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Men are nothing but a mere breath;
⇔ human beings are unreliable.
⇔ When they are weighed in the scales,
⇔ all of them together are lighter than air.

LSV Surely vanity the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up
They [are] lighter than a breath.

FBV Ordinary people are mere breaths, while leaders are just fakes. Put them all together and weigh them on scales and they wouldn't weigh more than air!

T4T ⇔ People who are considered to be unimportant are as worthless/unreliable as a breath of air;
⇔ people who are considered to be important also really ◄amount to nothing/cannot be trusted to help us►.
⇔ If you put them all on a scale, it would be as if they weighed less than a puff of air.

LEB • Only a vapor[fn] are men of low degree,
• a deception are men of high degree.
• Weighed[fn] in a balance,
• together they are lighter than a vapor.

62:? Or “breath”

62:? Literally “To go up”

BBE Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Moff ⇔ The lower ranks are but a thing of naught,
⇔ the upper ranks are only a delusion;
⇔ weigh them, they prove to be lighter and slighter than a breath of air.

JPS (62-10) Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.

ASV Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie:
⇔ In the balances they will go up;
⇔ They are together lighter than vanity.

DRA My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.

YLT Only — vanity [are] the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity [are] lighter.

Drby Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than vanity.

RV Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: in the balances they will go up; they are together lighter than vanity.

SLT Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

Wbstr Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

KJB-1769 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.[fn]

62.9 altogether: or, alike

KJB-1611 [fn]Surely men of low degree are vanitie, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ballance, they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
(Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter then vanity.)

62:9 Or, alike.

Bshps As for the chyldren of men, they be onlye but vanitie, the chyldren of lordes be but a lye: vpon the wayghtes they be altogether lighter then vanitie in selfe.
(As for the children of men, they be only but vanity, the children of lords be but a lye: upon the weights they be altogether lighter then vanity in self.)

Gnva Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
(Yet the children of men are vanity, the chief men are lies: to lay them upon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanity.)

Cvdl Sela. As for men, they are but vayne, me are disceatfull: vpo the weightes they are al together lighter then vanite itself.
(Sela. As for men, they are but vain, me are deceitful: upon the weights they are all together lighter then vanity itself.)

Wycl thi riythond took me vp.
(thy/your right-hand took me up.)

Luth Hoffet auf ihn allezeit, lieben Leute, schüttet euer Herz vor ihm aus! GOtt ist unsere Zuversicht. Sela.
(Hoffet on/in/to him/it at_all_times, love(v) people/folk, pours/spills your(pl) heart before/in_front_of him out! God is our confidence. Sela.)

ClVg Adhæsit anima mea post te; me suscepit dextera tua.
(It_stuck the_soul my after you(sg); me he_accepted right_hand your.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

הֶ֥בֶל בְּנֵֽי־אָדָם֮ כָּזָ֪ב בְּנֵ֫י אִ֥ישׁ