JOB 15:12 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) Why do your emotions get carried away?
 ⇔ ≈Why do your eyes flash with anger?

Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST You should not be allowing yourself to become so emotional.
⇔ No, you should not be allowing yourself to lose your temper.

BSB Why has your heart carried you away,
⇔ and why do your eyes flash,[fn]

15:12 Or blink

OEB How fierce the emotions that sweep thee!
⇔ And how thou flashest thine eyes,

WEB Why does your heart carry you away?
⇔ Why do your eyes flash,

NET Why has your heart carried you away,
 ⇔ and why do your eyes flash,

LSV Why does your heart take you away? And why are your eyes high?

FBV Why do you let yourself be carried away by your emotions?[fn]

15:12 Literally, “Why does your heart take you?”

T4T Why do you allow yourself to be ◄carried away/excited► by your emotions?
⇔ Why are you very angry, with the result that your eyes flash?

LEB • And why do your eyes flash,

BBE Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

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JPS Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?

ASV Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
 ⇔ And why do thine eyes flash,

DRA Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?

YLT What — doth thine heart take thee away? And what — are thine eyes high?

DBY Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

RV Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

WBS Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

KJB Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
(Why doth thine/your heart carry thee away? and what do thy/your eyes wink at, )

BB Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes,
(Why doth thine/your heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou/you with thine/your eyes,)

GNV Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
(Why doeth thine/your heart take thee away, and what do thine/your eyes meane, )

CB Why doth thine herte make the so proude? Why stondest thou so greatly in thine owne conceate? Where vnto loke thine eyes,
(Why doth thine/your heart make the so proude? Why stondest thou/you so greatly in thine/your own conceate? Where unto look thine/your eyes,)

WYC What reisith thin herte thee, and thou as thenkynge grete thingis hast iyen astonyed?
(What reisith thin heart thee, and thou/you as thinking great things hast iyen astonished?)

LUT Was nimmt dein Herz vor? Was siehest du so stolz?
(What nimmt your Herz vor? What siehest you so stolz?)

CLV Quid te elevat cor tuum, et quasi magna cogitans attonitos habes oculos?
(Quid you(sg) elevat heart tuum, and as_if magna cogitans attonitos habes oculos? )

BRN What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes aimed at,

BrLXX Τί ἐτόλμησεν ἡ καρδία σου; ἢ τί ἐπήνεγκαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου,
(Ti etolmaʸsen haʸ kardia sou? aʸ ti epaʸnegkan hoi ofthalmoi sou, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

מַה־יִּקָּחֲ⁠ךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑⁠ךָ וּֽ⁠מַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּ⁠ן עֵינֶֽי⁠ךָ

what? carry_~_away,you heart,your and,why flash, eyes,your

Eliphaz is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. (This is the beginning of a sentence that Eliphaz completes in the next verse.) Alternate translation: “Your heart should not carry you away and your eyes should not flash”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

מַה־יִּקָּחֲ⁠ךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑⁠ךָ

what? carry_~_away,you heart,your

Eliphaz is speaking of Job’s heart as if it were a living thing that could carry him away. He is using Job’s heart to represent his emotions. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Why are you allowing yourself to become so emotional” or, as a statement, “You should not allow yourself to become so emotional”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וּֽ⁠מַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּ⁠ן עֵינֶֽי⁠ךָ

and,why flash, eyes,your

Eliphaz is speaking of anger by association with the way that the eyes of a person who is angry will appear to flash or give off light. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and why are you so angry” or as a statement, “and you should not be so angry”

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