Open Bible Data Home About News OET Key
OET OET-RV OET-LV ULT UST BSB MSB BLB AICNT OEB WEBBE WMBB NET LSV FBV TCNT T4T LEB BBE Moff JPS Wymth ASV DRA YLT Drby RV SLT Wbstr KJB-1769 KJB-1611 Bshps Gnva Cvdl TNT Wycl SR-GNT UHB BrLXX BrTr Related Topics Parallel Interlinear Reference Dictionary Search
InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOB JOS JDG RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG JOEL MIC ISA ZEP HAB JER LAM YNA NAH OBA DAN EZE EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL YHN MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD 1 YHN 2 YHN 3 YHN REV
Ecc C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12
Ecc 7 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29
OET (OET-LV) Do_not say why was_it that_the_days the_former they_were good from_these if/because not from_wisdom you_have_asked on this.
OET (OET-RV) Don’t ask, “What was it about the old days that were better than these?”
⇔ because that question doesn’t display wisdom.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
(Occurrence 0) Why were the days of old better than these?
(Some words not found in UHB: not say what? it_became that,the,days the,former they_were better from=these that/for/because/then/when not from,wisdom ask on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this )
The person asks this rhetorical question in order to complain about the present time. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this question as a statement. Alternate translation: “Things were better in the past than they are now.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / irony
(Occurrence 0) it is not because of wisdom that you ask this question
(Some words not found in UHB: not say what? it_became that,the,days the,former they_were better from=these that/for/because/then/when not from,wisdom ask on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this )
Here the author uses irony to rebuke the person’s question. Alternate translation: “if you were wise you would not ask this question”
OET (OET-LV) Do_not say why was_it that_the_days the_former they_were good from_these if/because not from_wisdom you_have_asked on this.
OET (OET-RV) Don’t ask, “What was it about the old days that were better than these?”
⇔ because that question doesn’t display wisdom.
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.