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OET (OET-LV) And whenever the unclean spirit may_come_out from the person, it_is_passing_through through waterless places seeking rest and it_is_ not _finding.
OET (OET-RV) “Whenever an evil spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid lands looking for a place to rest, and doesn’t find any.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases
δὲ
and
Here, the word Now introduces the next topic that Jesus wants to speak about. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces the next topic, or you could leave Now untranslated. Alternate translation: “Next,”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
ὅταν & τὸ ἀκάθαρτον πνεῦμα
whenever & the unclean spirit
To further explain what he has been saying about “this generation,” Jesus tells a short story that continues through 12:45. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate that explicitly. Alternate translation: “here is an illustration about this generation: when the unclean spirit”
Note 3 topic: writing-participants
ὅταν & τὸ ἀκάθαρτον πνεῦμα ἐξέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
whenever & the unclean spirit /may/_come_out from the person
With this clause, Jesus introduces the unclean spirit and the man as characters in his story. If your language has its own way of introducing new participants, you could use it here in your translation. Alternate translation: “there was an unclean spirit possessing a man. When the unclean spirit has gone out from the man”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἀνύδρων τόπων
waterless places
Jesus is describing the desert by reference to the lack of water there. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “a desert” or “the wilderness”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἀνάπαυσιν
rest
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of rest, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “a place to rest”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἀνάπαυσιν
rest
Here, rest represents a place to live or stay, which for an unclean spirit would be a person to possess or control. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your language or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “a place to live” or “a home” or “a person to control”
12:43 Demons were thought to prefer the arid desert (see Rev 18:2; cp. Isa 13:21; 34:14).
OET (OET-LV) And whenever the unclean spirit may_come_out from the person, it_is_passing_through through waterless places seeking rest and it_is_ not _finding.
OET (OET-RV) “Whenever an evil spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid lands looking for a place to rest, and doesn’t find any.
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.