JOB 31:4 Parallel View

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31:4 Note--fnCOLON-- We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS--fnPERIOD-- Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS--fnPERIOD--

Key: yellow:verbs, red:negative.
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 I know that God sees everything that I do.
⇔ He is aware of each individual action that I take.

BSB Does He not see my ways
⇔ and count my every step?

OEB Doth He not see my ways,
⇔ And number my steps every one?

WEB Doesn’t he see my ways,
⇔ and count all my steps?

NET Does he not see my ways
 ⇔ and count all my steps?

LSV Does He not see my ways,
And number all my steps?

FBV Doesn't God see everything I do—even count every step I take?

T4T God certainly sees [RHQ] everything that I do,
⇔ so why is he causing me to suffer?
⇔ It is as though he counts every step that I take.

LEB • and count all my steps?

BBE Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps?

ASV Doth not he see my ways,
 ⇔ And number all my steps?

DRA Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

YLT Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

DBY Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

RV Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

WBS Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

KJB Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

BB Doth not he see my wayes, and tell all my goynges?
(Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goynges?)

GNV Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps?
(Doeth not he behold my ways and tell all my steps? )

CB Doth not he se my wayes, & tell all my goinges?
(Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goinges?)

WYC Whether he biholdith not my weies, and noumbrith alle my goyngis?
(Whether he biholdith not my ways, and noumbrith all my goyngis?)

LUT Siehet er nicht meine Wege und zählet alle meine Gänge?
(Siehet he not my Wege and zählet all my Gänge?)

CLV Nonne ipse considerat vias meas, et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat?[fn]
(Nonne ipse considerat vias meas, and cunctos gressus meos dinumerat?)

31.4 Nonne ipse considerat vias meas et cunctos. Nomine viarum, etc., usque ad quæ apud nos usu viluerunt, indiscussa remaneant. GREG. Sciens se videri cavet, non tamen securus et perfectus quidem inter veteres, in præceptis futuri Christi pensat, quam multa de perfectione minus habet. Ideo dicit: Si ambis.

31.4 Nonne ipse considerat vias meas and cunctos. Nomine viarum, etc., usque to which apud nos usu viluerunt, indiscussa remaneant. GREG. Sciens se videri cavet, not/no tamen securus and perfectus quidem between veteres, in præceptis futuri Christi pensat, how multa about perfectione minus habet. Ideo dicit: When/But_if ambis.

BRN Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

BrLXX Οὐχὶ αὐτὸς ὄψεται ὁδόν μου, καὶ πάντα τὰ διαβήματά μου ἐξαριθμήσεται;
(Ouⱪi autos opsetai hodon mou, kai panta ta diabaʸmata mou exarithmaʸsetai? )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הֲ⁠לֹא־ה֭וּא יִרְאֶ֣ה דְרָכָ֑⁠י וְֽ⁠כָל־צְעָדַ֥⁠י יִסְפּֽוֹר

?,not he/it he/it_will_see ways,my and=all steps,my number

Job 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. Alternate translation: “Certainly God sees my ways and counts all my steps!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

דְרָכָ֑⁠י

ways,my

Job is speaking of how he has been living as if that were a series of ways or paths that he has been walking along. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “how I have been living”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְֽ⁠כָל־צְעָדַ֥⁠י יִסְפּֽוֹר

and=all steps,my number

Within the image of life as a series of paths, Job is speaking as if God would literally count each of the steps he was taking. By steps, he probably means individual actions, and by count, he probably means that God notices each one specifically. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and take note of each of my actions”

Parallel JOB 31:4