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1 Chronicles 29:15

15 For mwe are 5aliens and 6pilgrims before You,

As were all our fathers;

nOur days on earth are as a shadow,

And without hope.

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1 Chronicles 29:15 — The New International Version (NIV)

15 We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — English Standard Version (ESV)

15 For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — New Living Translation (NLT)

15 We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — New Century Version (NCV)

15 We are like foreigners and strangers,

as our ancestors were.

Our time on earth is like a shadow.

There is no hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — American Standard Version (ASV)

15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

15 To you we are all like our ancestors— 

foreigners without permanent homes. 

Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. 

There’s no hope ⸤for them⸥. 

1 Chronicles 29:15 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

15 For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

15 For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

15 For we are strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days are like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope of abiding.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

15 We are outsiders and strangers in your sight. So were all of our people who lived long ago. Our days on this earth are like a shadow. We don’t have any hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

15 “For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.


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