PSA 89:48 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (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).

ULT Who can live and not see death,
⇔ or rescue his own life from the hand of Sheol? Selah

UST No one can keep on living and never die;
⇔ no one can bring himself back from the place of the dead.

BSB What man can live and never see death?
⇔ Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB Who can live without seeing death?
⇔ Who can rescue their life from the clutch of Sheol? Selah

WEBBE What man is he who shall live and not see death,
⇔ who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?[fn] Selah.

89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead.

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET No man can live on without experiencing death,
⇔ or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)

LSV Who [is] the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

FBV There's no one who doesn't die—no one can save themselves from the power of the grave. Selah.

T4T No one can [RHQ] keep on living and never die;
⇔ ◄No one can [RHQ] avoid going/Everyone will go► to the place of the dead.
⇔ (Think about that!)

LEB • What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power[fn] of Sheol? Selah

89:? Literally “hand””

BBE What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

Moff Who can live on and die not,
⇔ who can escape the grave?

JPS (89-49) What man is he that liveth and shall not see death, that shall deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah

ASV What man is he that shall live and not see death,
⇔ That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah

DRA No DRA PSA 89:48 verse available

YLT Who [is] the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

Drby What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

RV What man is he that shall live and not see death, that shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

SLT What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence.

Wbstr What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

KJB-1769 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
(What man is he that liveth/lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. )

KJB-1611 What man is he that liueth, and shall not see death? shall he deliuer his soule from the hand of the graue? Selah.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death? can he delyuer his owne soule from the hande of hell? Selah.
(What man is he that liveth/lives and shall not see death? can he deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.)

Gnva What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.
(What man liveth/lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. )

Cvdl O remembre how shorte my tyme is, hast thou made all men for naught?
(Oh remember how short my time is, hast thou/you made all men for naught/nothing?)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 89:48 verse available

Luth Gedenke, wie kurz mein Leben ist! Warum willst du alle Menschen umsonst geschaffen haben?
(Remember, as/like short my life is! Why want you(sg) all people for_free created/made have?)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 89:48 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

Who can live and not die, or rescue his own life from the hand of Sheol?

(Some words not found in UHB: remember I what? short_~_time on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in what? vanity created all sons_of humankind )

The writer uses these questions to emphasize that all people will die. Alternate translation: “No one can live forever or bring himself back to life after dying”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

rescue his own life from the hand of Sheol

(Some words not found in UHB: remember I what? short_~_time on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in what? vanity created all sons_of humankind )

Here “hand” refers to power. The writer speaks of Sheol as if it were a person who has power over those who die. This could mean: (1) a person cannot bring himself back to life after dying or (2) a person cannot keep himself from dying. (See also: figs-personification)

Parallel PSA 89:48