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Psalm 62:9
Psalm 62:9 — The New International Version (NIV)
9 Surely the lowborn are but a breath,
the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
together they are only a breath.
Psalm 62:9 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
9 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.
Psalm 62:9 — New Living Translation (NLT)
9 Common people are as worthless as a puff of wind,
and the powerful are not what they appear to be.
If you weigh them on the scales,
together they are lighter than a breath of air.
Psalm 62:9 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie;
If they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.
Psalm 62:9 — New Century Version (NCV)
9 The least of people are only a breath,
and even the greatest are just a lie.
On the scales, they weigh nothing;
together they are only a breath.
Psalm 62:9 — American Standard Version (ASV)
9 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.
Psalm 62:9 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
9 Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.
Psalm 62:9 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
9 Common people are only a whisper in the wind.
Important people are only a delusion.
When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing.
They are less than a whisper in the wind.
Psalm 62:9 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
9 Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.
Psalm 62:9 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
9 Those of low estate are but a breath,
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.
Psalm 62:9 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
9 Only a vapor are men of low degree,
a deception are men of high degree.
Weighed in a balance,
together they are lighter than a vapor.
Psalm 62:9 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
9 Ordinary people are only a breath.
Important people are not what they seem to be.
If they were weighed on a scale, they wouldn’t amount to anything.
Together they are only a breath.
Psalm 62:9 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
9 Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.
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