Psalm 62:9 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter) Surely mean men are vanity, and great men are a lie; In balance laid, they wholly are more light than vanity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Men of low degree [in the social scale] are emptiness (futility, a breath) and men of high degree [in the same scale] are a lie and a delusion. In the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Human beings are nothing but a breath. Human beings are nothing but lies. They don’t even register on a scale; taken all together they are lighter than a breath! Catholic Public Domain Version My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version my soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me. |
When in me was o'erwhelm'd my sp'rit, then well thou knew'st my way; Where I did walk a snare for me they privily did lay.
When with rebukes thou dost correct man for iniquity, Thou wastes his beauty like a moth: sure each man's vanity.
Lo, thou my days an handbreadth mad'st; mine age is in thine eye As nothing: sure each man at best is wholly vanity.
Therefore, although the earth remove, we will not be afraid: Though hills amidst the seas be cast;