KJV King James Version
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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Psalm 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
WEB World English Bible
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
ASV American Standard Version
For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.
Surrounding context — Psalm 102
1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day [when] I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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James 4:14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.Lamentations 1:13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.Psalm 37:20But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Psalm 31:10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Psalm 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.Psalm 22:14-15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.Psalm 38:3[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
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