PSA 140:11 Parallel View

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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 May men of tongues not be established in the land;
 ⇔ may evil hunt down the man of violence speedily.

UST Do not allow those who slander others to succeed;
⇔ cause evil things to happen to violent men and destroy them!

BSB May no slanderer be established in the land;
⇔ may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

OEB no place in the land may there be for the slanderer:
⇔ may the violent be hunted from sorrow to sorrow.

WEB An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth.
⇔ Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

NET A slanderer will not endure on the earth;
 ⇔ calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

LSV A talkative man is not established in the earth,
One of violence—evil hunts to overflowing.

FBV Don't let people who slander others live in our land. May disaster strike down violent people.

T4T Do not allow those who slander others to succeed;
⇔ cause evil things to happen to violent men and destroy them!

LEB • [fn] be established in the land; as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.

?:? Literally “man of tongue”

BBE Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

MOF Away with slanderers! may violent men
⇔ be hunted from one woe to another!

JPS (140-12) A slanderer shall not be established in the earth; the violent and evil man shall be hunted with thrust upon thrust.

ASV An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth:
 ⇔ Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

DRA No DRA PSA 140:11 verse available

YLT A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence — evil hunteth to overflowing.

DBY Let not the man of [evil] tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to [his] ruin.

RV An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

WBS Let not an evil speaker be established on the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him .

KJB Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.[fn]
(Let not an evil speakr be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.)

140.11 an…: or, an evil speaker (Heb. a man of tongue), a wicked man of violence, be established in the earth: let him be hunted to his overthrow

BB A man full of tongue can not prosper vpon the earth: euyll shall hunt the outragious person to ouerthrowe him.
(A man full of tongue cannot prosper upon the earth: evil shall hunt the outragious person to ouerthrowe him.)

GNV For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.
(For the backbiter shall not be established upon the earth: evil shall hunt the cruell man to destruction. )

CB A man full of wordes shal not prospere vpon earth: a malicious & wicked person shal be hunted awaye and destroyed.
(A man full of words shall not prospere upon earth: a malicious and wicked person shall be hunted away and destroyed.)

WYC No WYC PSA 140:11 verse available

LUT Er wird Strahlen über sie schütten; er wird sie mit Feuer tief in die Erde schlagen, daß sie nimmer nicht aufstehen.
(Er becomes Strahlen above they/she/them schütten; he becomes they/she/them with fire tief in the earth schlagen, that they/she/them nimmer not aufstehen.)

CLV No CLV PSA 140:11 verse available

BRN No BRN PSA 140:11 verse available

BrLXX No BrLXX PSA 140:11 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

men of tongues

(Some words not found in UHB: fall on,them burning_coals in/on/at/with,fire thrown,them in/on/at/with,miry_pits never rise )

those who speak evil of others without cause

secure on the earth

(Some words not found in UHB: fall on,them burning_coals in/on/at/with,fire thrown,them in/on/at/with,miry_pits never rise )

Alternate translation: “safe in this life”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

may evil hunt down the violent man

(Some words not found in UHB: fall on,them burning_coals in/on/at/with,fire thrown,them in/on/at/with,miry_pits never rise )

Here evil is spoken of as if it were someone taking revenge on another person.

Parallel PSA 140:11