PRO 4:16 Parallel View

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4:16 Variant note: יכשולו: (x-qere) ’יַכְשִֽׁילוּ’: lemma_3782 n_0 morph_HVhi3mp id_20UCh יַכְשִֽׁילוּ

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).

ULT For they do not sleep if they do not do evil
 ⇔ and their sleep is robbed if they do not cause stumbling.

UST Do not act wickedly because it is as if evil people cannot even sleep unless they do something evil;
⇔ it is as if they cannot rest unless they hurt someone.

BSB For they cannot sleep
⇔ unless they do evil;
 ⇔ they are deprived of slumber
⇔ until they make someone fall.

OEB For they do not sleep unless they have done some harm.
⇔ They are sleepless until they have wrought some ruin.

WEB For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
⇔ Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

NET For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm;
 ⇔ they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

LSV For they do not sleep if they do no evil,
And their sleep has been taken away violently,
If they do not cause [some] to stumble.

FBV Evil people won't rest until they've done something wrong; they can't sleep unless they've tripped someone up.

T4T because evil people cannot sleep if they have not done some evil deed on that day.
⇔ They cannot rest if they have not harmed someone.

LEB • and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.

BBE For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

MOF No MOF PRO book available

JPS For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

ASV For they sleep not, except they do evil;
 ⇔ And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

DRA For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

YLT For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.

DBY For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.

RV For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

WBS For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

KJB For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
(For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. )

BB For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.
(For they sleep not except they have done mischiefe: and sleep is taken from them, until they have done harme.)

GNV For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
(For they cannot sleep, except they have done evil, and their sleep departeth except they cause some to fall. )

CB For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.
(For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some myschefe: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harme.)

WYC For thei slepen not, `no but thei han do yuele; and sleep is rauyschid fro hem, no but thei han disseyued.
(For they sleepn not, `no but they have do yuele; and sleep is rauyschid from them, no but they have disseyued.)

LUT Denn sie schlafen nicht, sie haben denn übel getan; und sie ruhen nicht, sie haben denn Schaden getan.
(Because they/she/them schlafen not, they/she/them have because übel getan; and they/she/them ruhen not, they/she/them have because Schaden getan.)

CLV Non enim dormiunt nisi malefecerint, et rapitur somnus ab eis nisi supplantaverint.
(Non because dormiunt nisi malefecerint, and rapitur somnus away eis nisi supplantaverint. )

BRN For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

BrLXX Οὐ γὰρ μὴ ὑπνώσωσιν, ἐὰν μὴ κακοποιήσωσιν· ἀφῄρηται ὁ ὕπνος αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐ κοιμῶνται.
(Ou gar maʸ hupnōsōsin, ean maʸ kakopoiaʸsōsin; afaʸraʸtai ho hupnos autōn, kai ou koimōntai. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

כִּ֤י

that/for/because/then/when

For here indicates that what follows are reasons why someone should avoid doing evil, as stated in the previous verse. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: “Avoid acting wickedly because”

Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns

לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽ⁠נִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗⁠ם אִם־לֹ֥א יַכְשִֽׁילוּ

not sleep if not done_wrong and,robbed sleep,they if not (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not sleep if not done_wrong and,robbed sleep,they if not stumble )

In this verse, the pronoun they refers to the wicked people mentioned in 4:14. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “wicked ones do not sleep if they do not do evil, and the sleep of wicked ones is robbed if those wicked ones do not cause stumbling”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole

לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽ⁠נִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗⁠ם אִם־לֹ֥א יַכְשִֽׁילוּ

not sleep if not done_wrong and,robbed sleep,they if not (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not sleep if not done_wrong and,robbed sleep,they if not stumble )

In these two clauses, Solomon exaggerates to express how intensely these wicked people desire to do evil actions. Solomon did not mean that these people really did not sleep without doing evil. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different way to express the emphasis. Alternate translation: “they desire to do evil so much that it is as if they would not be able to sleep unless they did evil”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְֽ⁠נִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗⁠ם

and,robbed sleep,they

Here Solomon is speaking of not being able to sleep as if sleep were an object that someone could be robbed of. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and they are not able to sleep”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אִם־לֹ֥א יַכְשִֽׁילוּ

if if not (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when not sleep if not done_wrong and,robbed sleep,they if not stumble )

Here Solomon speaks of causing harm to another person as if it were causing that person to stumble. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “if they do not harm someone”

Parallel PRO 4:16