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OET (OET-LV) In it we_are_blessing our master and father, and in it we_are_cursing the people, the ones according_to the_likeness of_god having_become.
OET (OET-RV) We use it to bless our master and father, yet we use it to curse our fellow humans who are made in God’s image.
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
ἐν αὐτῇ εὐλογοῦμεν & καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ καταρώμεθα
in it ˱we˲_/are/_blessing & and in it (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἐν αὐτῇ εὐλογοῦμεν τὸν Κύριον καὶ Πατέρα καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ καταρώμεθα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν Θεοῦ γεγονότας)
The pronoun it refers to the tongue. Alternate translation: “With our tongue we bless … and with our tongue we curse”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἐν αὐτῇ εὐλογοῦμεν & καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ καταρώμεθα
in it ˱we˲_/are/_blessing & and in it (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἐν αὐτῇ εὐλογοῦμεν τὸν Κύριον καὶ Πατέρα καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ καταρώμεθα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν Θεοῦ γεγονότας)
James is using the tongue to represent what people say, by association with the way the tongue is used for speech. Alternate translation: “We use our tongue in speech to bless … and we use our tongue in speech to curse” or “By what we say, we bless … and by what we say, we curse”
εὐλογοῦμεν
˱we˲_/are/_blessing
In this context, bless does not mean to confer a blessing on someone, as a superior would to an inferior. Rather, it means to say good things about someone. Alternate translation: “we say good things about”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys
τὸν Κύριον καὶ Πατέρα
our Lord and Father
James is not talking about two different people. He is expressing a single idea by using two nouns connected with and. The noun Father further identifies the Lord. Alternate translation: “the Lord our Father”
Note 4 topic: guidelines-sonofgodprinciples
Πατέρα
Father
Father is an important title for God.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations
τοὺς ἀνθρώπους
¬the people
James is using the term men in a generic sense that includes all people. Alternate translation: “people”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τοὺς καθ’ ὁμοίωσιν Θεοῦ γεγονότας
¬the the_‹ones› according_to /the/_likeness ˱of˲_God /having/_become
James means implicitly that God created people in his own likeness. Alternate translation: “whom God made according to his own likeness”
3:9 praises . . . curses: Praising our Lord and Father is the best activity of the tongue, whereas cursing those made in his image is one of the worst, because it is an implicit curse on God himself (Gen 1:26-27; 9:6).
OET (OET-LV) In it we_are_blessing our master and father, and in it we_are_cursing the people, the ones according_to the_likeness of_god having_become.
OET (OET-RV) We use it to bless our master and father, yet we use it to curse our fellow humans who are made in God’s image.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.