JOB 21:14 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) They tell God, “Leave us alone.
 ⇔ We’re not interested in knowing about your ways.

Key: yellow:verbs, red:negative, blue:Elohim.
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 They say to God, ‘Turn away from us,
⇔ for we do not desire knowledge of your ways.

UST While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Leave us alone;
⇔ we do not care about how you want us to live our lives!’

BSB Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone!
⇔ For we have no desire to know Your ways.

OEB Though they said unto God, "O leave us,
⇔ We desire not to know Thy ways.

WEB They tell God, ‘Depart from us,
⇔ for we don’t want to know about your ways.

NET So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us!
 ⇔ We do not want to know your ways.

LSV And they say to God, Turn aside from us,
And the knowledge of Your ways
We have not desired.

FBV Yet they tell God, ‘Get lost! We don't want anything to do with you.

T4T While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Do not bother us;
⇔ we do not want to know how you want us to conduct our lives!

LEB • for[fn] we do not desire to know your ways.

?:? Hebrew “and”

BBE Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.

ASV And they say unto God, Depart from us;
 ⇔ For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

DRA Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

YLT And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

DBY And they say unto [fn]God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

21.14 El

RV Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

WBS Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

KJB Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
(Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy/your ways. )

BB They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
(They say also unto God: Go from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy/your ways.)

GNV They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
(They say also unto God, Depart from us: for we desire not the knowledge of thy/your ways. )

CB They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes.
(They say unto God: go from us, we desyre not the knowlege of thy/your ways.)

WYC Whiche men seiden to God, Go thou awei fro us; we nylen the kunnyng of thi weies.
(Which men said to God, Go thou/you away from us; we nylen the cunning/knowledge of thy/your ways.)

LUT die doch sagen zu GOtt: Hebe dich von uns, wir wollen von deinen Wegen nicht wissen.
(die though/but say to God: Hebe you/yourself from uns, wir wollen from deinen Wegen not wissen.)

CLV Qui dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis, et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.[fn]
(Who dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis, and scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.)

21.14 Qui dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis. GREG. Dicunt Deo: Recede a nobis, qui ei ad se præbere aditum recusant, eumque pravis actibus impugnant. Scientiam viarum tuarum. Via Dei pax, humilitas, patientia est: quæ qui despiciunt, dicunt: Scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.

21.14 Who dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis. GREG. Dicunt Deo: Recede a nobis, who to_him to se præbere aditum recusant, eumque pravis actibus impugnant. Scientiam viarum tuarum. Via God pax, humilitas, patientia it_is: which who despiciunt, dicunt: Scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.

BRN Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.

BrLXX Λέγει δὲ Κυρίῳ, ἀπόστα ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ὁδούς σου εἰδέναι οὐ βούλομαι.
(Legei de Kuriōi, aposta apʼ emou, hodous sou eidenai ou boulomai. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

וַ⁠יֹּאמְר֣וּ לָ֭⁠אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑⁠נּוּ וְ⁠דַ֥עַת דְּ֝רָכֶ֗י⁠ךָ לֹ֣א חָפָֽצְנוּ

and=they_said to_THE,God depart from=him/it and,know ways,your not desire

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “They tell God to turn away from them because they do not desire knowledge of his ways”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑⁠נּוּ

depart from=him/it

The wicked people are speaking as if they wanted God literally to turn away from them. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Do not be concerned with us”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וְ⁠דַ֥עַת דְּ֝רָכֶ֗י⁠ךָ לֹ֣א חָפָֽצְנוּ

and,know ways,your not desire

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of knowledge, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “for we do not want to know your ways”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

דְּ֝רָכֶ֗י⁠ךָ

ways,your

The wicked people are speaking of how God wants people to live as if that were a series of ways or paths that God wanted people to walk along. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “how you want people to live”

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