Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Like a drop of water from the sea or a grain of sand, such are these few years compared with eternity.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand, so are a few years among the days of eternity.
Good News Translation®
but compared with all eternity, those years are like a drop of water in the ocean, like a single grain of sand.
Wycliffe Bible
be areckoned as the drops of the water of the sea; and as the stone (or as a stone) of gravel, so a few years in the day of everlastingness. [as drops of the water of the sea they be ordained; and as a little stone of gravel, so few years in the day of the spiritual world.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand so are a few years in the day of eternity.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand, so are a few years among the days of eternity.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand, so are a few years among the days of eternity.
Common English Bible © 2011
Like a drop of water from the sea or a grain of sand, so are a few years in the span of eternity.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand, so are these few years among the days of eternity.
Revised Standard Version
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand so are a few years in the day of eternity.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand, so are a few years among the days of eternity.