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Psalms 104:23

What does Psalms 104:23 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 104:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service--till evening.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening.

Context

v.22The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens.

v.23This passage

v.24O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:8

    neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

  • Judges 19:16

    And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • Genesis 3:19

    in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:12

    The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

  • Ephesians 4:28

    Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

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