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OET (OET-LV) for/because_ Why _reason you_all_are_ not _knowing the my the speech?
Because you_all_are_ not _being_able to_be_hearing the my the message.
OET (OET-RV) Why can’t you comprehend what I’m saying? The reason that you can’t stand listening to my message
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
διὰ τί τὴν λαλιὰν τὴν ἐμὴν οὐ γινώσκετε?
for_reason why ¬the speech ¬the my not ˱you_all˲_/are/_knowing
Jesus is using a rhetorical question here to emphasize the truth of what he is saying. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “I will tell you why you do not understand what I say!”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
οὐ δύνασθε ἀκούειν τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐμόν
not not ˱you_all˲_/are/_being_able /to_be/_hearing ¬the word ¬the my
Here, hear means to listen to something with the intent to heed it and respond appropriately. It does not mean simply to hear what someone says. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “you are not able to heed my words”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐμόν
¬the word ¬the my
Here, Jesus uses words to refer to his teachings. See how you translated this phrase in 5:47. Alternate translation: “my teachings.”
8:12-59 The debate about whether or not Jesus is the Messiah continues from 7:52. Jesus was still at the Festival of Shelters in Jerusalem. During the festival, the conflicts Jesus had endured in ch 7 continued and intensified.
OET (OET-LV) for/because_ Why _reason you_all_are_ not _knowing the my the speech?
Because you_all_are_ not _being_able to_be_hearing the my the message.
OET (OET-RV) Why can’t you comprehend what I’m saying? The reason that you can’t stand listening to my message
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.