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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
3 Oh master Almighty, you God of Yisrael, the soul in anguish and the troubled spirit cries to you. 2 Hear, Oh master, and have mercy; for you’re a merciful God. Yes, have mercy on us, because we’ve sinned before you. 3 Because you’re enthroned forever, and we keep perishing. 4 Oh master Almighty, you God of Yisrael, hear now the prayer of the dead Israelis, and of the children of those who were sinners before you, who didn’t listen to the voice of you their god; because of this, these deadly diseases cling to us. 5 Don’t remember the iniquities of our fathers, but remember your power and your name at this time. 6 Because you’re the master our god, and we’ll praise you, Oh master. 7 Because this cause, you’ve put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call on your name. We’ll praise you in our captivity, for we’ve called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers who sinned before you. 8 Listen, we’re yet this day in our captivity where you’ve scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the master our god.
9 Hear, Oh Yisrael, the commandments of life! Give ear to understand wisdom! 10 How is it, Oh Yisrael, that you’re in your enemies’ land, that you’ve become old in a strange country, that you’re defiled with the dead, 11 that you’re counted with those who are in Haidais? 12 You’ve forsaken the fountain of wisdom. 13 If you’d walked in the way of God, you’d have dwelled in peace forever. 14 Learn where there’s wisdom, where there’s strength, and where there’s understanding, that you may also know where there’s length of days and life, where there’s the light of the eyes and peace. 15 Who’s found out her place? Who’s come into her treasuries? 16 Where are the princes of the heathen, and those who ruled the wild animals that are on the earth, 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, in which people trust, and of their getting there’s no end? 18 Because those who diligently strived to gain silver, and were so anxious, and whose works are past finding out, 19 they’ve vanished and gone down to Haidais, and others have come up in their place.
20 Younger men have seen the light and lived on the earth, but they haven’t known the way of knowledge, 21 nor understood its paths. Their children haven’t embraced it. They’re far off from their way. 22 It hasn’t been heard of in Kena’an (Canaan), neither has it been seen in Teyman. 23 The sons also of Hagar who seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teyman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding—none of these have known the way of wisdom or remembered her paths.
24 Oh Yisrael (Israel), how great is God’s house! How large is the place of his possession! 25 It’s great and has no end. It’s high and unmeasurable. 26 Giants were born that were famous of old, great of stature, and expert in war. 27 God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them, 28 so they perished, because they had no wisdom. They perished through their own foolishness. 29 Who’s gone up into heaven, taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? 30 Who’s gone over the sea, found her, and will bring her for choice gold? 31 There’s no one who knows her way, nor any who comprehend her path. 32 But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding. He who prepared the earth for all time has filled it with four-footed animals. 33 It’s he who sends forth the light, and it goes. He called it, and it obeyed him with fear. 34 / 34 The stars shone in their watches, and were glad. When he called them, they said, “Here we are.” They shone with gladness to him who made them. 35 This is our god. No other can be compared to him. 36 He’s found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Ya’akov (Jacob) his servant and to Yisrael (Israel) who’s loved by him. 37 Afterward she appeared on earth, and lived with men.
