JOB 16:15 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) I’ve dressed in sackcloth to show I’m mourning.
 ⇔ ≈I’ve tossed my horn into the dust to show I’m defeated.

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).

ULT I have sewn sackcloth on my skin,
⇔ and I have thrust my horn into the dust.

UST I am grieving so deeply that it is as if I have sewn rough mourning cloth right onto my skin!
⇔ I feel weak and humiliated.

BSB  ⇔ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
⇔ I have buried my horn in the dust.

OEB Sackcloth I sewed on my skin,
⇔ And my horn I have laid in the dust.

WEB I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
⇔ and have thrust my horn in the dust.

NET I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
 ⇔ and buried my horn in the dust;

LSV I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
And have rolled my horn in the dust.

FBV I have sown sackcloth[fn] to cover my skin; my strength lies broken in the dust.[fn]

16:15 Putting on sackcloth was a sign of mourning.

16:15 Literally, “I have thrust my horn in the dust.”

T4T  ⇔ “Because I am mourning, I wear pieces of rough cloth that I have sewed together,
⇔ and I sit here in the dirt, very depressed/discouraged.

LEB • and I have inserted[fn] in the dust.

?:? Literally “my horn”

BBE I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

ASV I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
 ⇔ And have laid my horn in the dust.

DRA He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

YLT Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

DBY I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.

RV I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

WBS I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

KJB I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

BB I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust.
(I have sowed a sackcloth upon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust.)

GNV I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
(I have sowed a sackcloth upon my skinne, and have abased mine horne unto the dust. )

CB I haue sowed a sack cloth vpon my skynne, and lye with my strength in the dust.
(I have sowed a sack cloth upon my skin, and lye with my strength in the dust.)

WYC He beet me with wounde on wounde; he as a giaunt felde in on me.
(He beet me with wounde on wounde; he as a giaunt field in on me.)

LUT Ich habe einen Sack um meine Haut genähet und habe mein Horn in den Staub gelegt.
(I have a Sack around/by/for my skin genähet and have my Horn in the Staub gelegt.)

CLV Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me quasi gigas.[fn]
(Concidit me vulnere super vulnus: irruit in me as_if gigas.)

16.15 Concidit me. In infirmis suis Ecclesia, etc., usque ad cum culpa culpam cumulaverit. Irruit in me quasi gigas. Quia nimirum malignus spiritus contra hanc, id est animam, ex prava consuetudine devictam quasi more gigantis pugnat, quia quanto se ei anima subjicit crebrius, tanto eum sibi intolerabiliorem se facit. Sed quia plerumque ad pœnitentiam redit, sequitur.

16.15 Concidit me. In infirmis to_his_own Ecclesia, etc., usque to when/with culpa culpam cumulaverit. Irruit in me as_if gigas. Quia nimirum malignus spiritus contra hanc, id it_is animam, ex prava consuetudine devictam as_if more gigantis pugnat, because quanto se to_him anima subyicit crebrius, tanto him sibi intolerabiliorem se facit. Sed because plerumque to pœnitentiam redit, sequitur.

BRN They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

BrLXX Σάκκον ἔῤῥαψαν ἐπὶ βύρσης μου, τὸ δὲ σθένος μου ἐν γῇ ἐσβέσθη.
(Sakkon eῤɽapsan epi bursaʸs mou, to de sthenos mou en gaʸ esbesthaʸ. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

שַׂ֣ק תָּ֭פַרְתִּי עֲלֵ֣י גִלְדִּ֑⁠י

sackcloth sewed over skin,my

Job is speaking as if he had literally sewn sackcloth onto his skin. He could mean: (1) that he is continually in mourning, as if he wore sackcloth (a sign of mourning) so frequently that it seemed to be sewn onto his skin. Alternate translation: “I am continually in mourning” (2) that he actually has been wearing sackcloth (although the narrative at the beginning of the book does not say so) and it has stuck to his skin because of his boils, as if it were sewn to his skin. Alternate translation: “The sackcloth I have been wearing in grief has stuck to my skin”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠עֹלַ֖לְתִּי בֶ⁠עָפָ֣ר קַרְנִֽ⁠י

and,buried in/on/at/with, ,my

People in the biblical culture used the horn of an animal to represent strength and honor. When they did, they would speak of humans as if they had horns like animals. For example, Psalm 112:9 says of the person who fears Yahweh, “His horn rises high in honor.” Job is using the image in the opposite way to say that he is suffering disgrace. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and I am suffering great disgrace”

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