Psalms 88:49

9 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

Clementine Vulgate 1598

Quis est homo qui vivet et non videbit mortem? eruet animam suam de manu inferi?

What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.

Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

Where are your ancient mercies, O Lord, which you swore to David in your truth?

Where are your ancient mercies, O Lord, which you swore to David in your truth?

What man is there who shall live, and not see death? Shall anyone deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.

τίς ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος, ὃς ζήσεται, καὶ οὐκ ὄψεται θάνατον; ρύσεται τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐκ χειρὸς ᾅδου; (διάψαλμα).

Τίς ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος, ὃς ζήσεται καὶ οὐκ ὄψεται θάνατον; ῥύσεται τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐκ χειρὸς ᾅδου; διάψαλμα.

Кто из людей жил - и не видел смерти, избавил душу свою от руки преисподней?

Traditions differ. Both positions are shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Broad agreement: 1010 BC–400 BC David and many others
The Psalter is a collection assembled over centuries; individual psalms range widely in date.

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (1010 BC–400 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
750 BC–650 BC Homeric epics take written form Greece
The Iliad and Odyssey were fixed in writing after generations of oral transmission.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
722 BC Fall of Samaria Levant
The Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel and the deportation of much of its population.
587 BC–586 BC Fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile Levant
Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the temple and deported the Judean elite to Babylon.