InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Ecc C1 C2 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12
Ecc 3 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV Whatever (that)_it_is has_been_already it and_which to_be already it_has_been and_(the)_god he_will_seek DOM that_which_was_pursued.
OET (OET-RV) Whatever there is, it already was,
⇔ and whatever is to be, it already is,
⇔ and God will watch whatever’s being worked on.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ נִרְדָּֽף
and,(the),God seeks (Some words not found in UHB: what? (that)_it,is already he/it and=which to=be already it_became and,(the),God seeks DOM gone_by )
Solomon is using God will seek what is pursued as a common expression of the culture to mean “God calls back what has passed away.” If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [And God calls back what has passed away]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
נִרְדָּֽף
gone_by
The expression is pursued is a passive verbal form. If it would be unnatural to use that form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [people pursue]
OET-LV Whatever (that)_it_is has_been_already it and_which to_be already it_has_been and_(the)_god he_will_seek DOM that_which_was_pursued.
OET (OET-RV) Whatever there is, it already was,
⇔ and whatever is to be, it already is,
⇔ and God will watch whatever’s being worked on.
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 Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.