Other translations
New Catholic Bible
For our lifetime is but a passing shadow, and there is no way to recall our end because it is sealed, and no one can bring it back.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
Good News Translation®
Our time on earth is like a passing shadow. There is no escape from the day of our death; it is fixed, and no one can postpone it.
Wycliffe Bible
For why our time is the passing of a shadow, and no (re)turning again of (or after) our end there is; for it is asealed, and no man (re)turneth again. [Forsooth the passing of the shadow is our time, and there is not turning again of our end; for it is all closed, and no man turneth again.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
Common English Bible © 2011
Our time here is like a shadow passing by. There’s no turning back from death. It has been sealed, and no one will alter it.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow; and our dying cannot be deferred because it is fixed with a seal; and no one returns.
Revised Standard Version
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.