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OET (OET-LV) Not the law of_us is_judging the person, if not first may_hear from him, and may_know what he_is_doing?
OET (OET-RV) “Since when did our rules allow us to judge a person before we’ve even heard them out and investigated what they’re doing?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
μὴ ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν κρίνει τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ πρῶτον παρ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ γνῷ τί ποιεῖ?
not the law ˱of˲_us /is/_judging the person if not /may/_hear first from him and /may/_know what ˱he˲_/is/_doing
Nicodemus is using the form of a question to add emphasis. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this type of question by translating his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “Our law certainly does not judge a man unless it might first hear from him and might know what he does!”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
μὴ ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν κρίνει τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ πρῶτον παρ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ γνῷ τί ποιεῖ
not the law ˱of˲_us /is/_judging the person if not /may/_hear first from him and /may/_know what ˱he˲_/is/_doing
Nicodemus speaks of the law as if it were a person. If this use of law is not natural in your language, you could express this meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “It is not written in our law that we may judge a man unless we might first hear from him and might know what he does, is it”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
τὸν ἄνθρωπον
the person
Here, a man does not refer to a specific man. It refers to any man in general. Alternate translation: “any man”
7:1-52 This chapter is another account of Jesus during a Jewish festival, the Festival of Shelters. Jesus used elements of the festival to reveal his true identity to his Jewish compatriots and to show that he had fulfilled the festival’s essential meaning (see 7:37-39; 8:12).
OET (OET-LV) Not the law of_us is_judging the person, if not first may_hear from him, and may_know what he_is_doing?
OET (OET-RV) “Since when did our rules allow us to judge a person before we’ve even heard them out and investigated what they’re doing?”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.