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OET (OET-RV) If it’s appropriate to be boasting, what I’d boast about would be my weaknesses.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-fact
εἰ
if
Paul speaks as if this were a hypothetical situation, but he means that it is true. If your language does not state something as a condition if it is certain or true, and if your readers might think that what Paul is saying is uncertain, then you could translate his words as an affirmative statement. Alternate translation: “When” or “Because”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
τὰ τῆς ἀσθενείας
the_‹things› ˱of˲_the weakness
Here, Paul is using the possessive form to describe things about him that are characterized by weakness. If this is not clear in your language, you could express the idea in another way. Alternate translation: “weak things about me” or “the weaknesses I have”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
τὰ τῆς ἀσθενείας
the_‹things› ˱of˲_the weakness
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of weakness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “things about me that are weak”
11:30 the things that show how weak I am: Paul develops this theme in 12:1-10.
OET (OET-RV) If it’s appropriate to be boasting, what I’d boast about would be my weaknesses.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.