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 Job C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42
Job 15 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 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35
OET (OET-RV) Both the grey-haired and the elderly are on our side,
⇔ ≈ People who’ve lived longer than your father.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
גַּם־שָׂ֣ב גַּם־יָשִׁ֣ישׁ
(Some words not found in UHB: also/yet grey-haired also/yet aged [are]_among,us great more,than_of,your_father days )
Eliphaz is using the adjectives gray-haired and aged as nouns to mean certain kinds of people. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate these words with equivalent phrases. Alternate translation: [Both gray-haired people and aged people]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
גַּם־שָׂ֣ב גַּם־יָשִׁ֣ישׁ
(Some words not found in UHB: also/yet grey-haired also/yet aged [are]_among,us great more,than_of,your_father days )
The terms gray-haired and aged mean similar things. Eliphaz is using the two terms together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: [The most senior people]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
בָּ֑נוּ
(Some words not found in UHB: also/yet grey-haired also/yet aged [are]_among,us great more,than_of,your_father days )
In this context, the expression with us indicates agreement. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [agree with us]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
כַּבִּ֖יר מֵאָבִ֣יךָ יָמִֽים
(Some words not found in UHB: also/yet grey-haired also/yet aged [are]_among,us great more,than_of,your_father days )
Eliphaz is using this adjective phrase as a noun phrase to mean a certain group of people. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate this phrase with an equivalent one. Alternate translation: [people who are greater than your father in days]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
כַּבִּ֖יר מֵאָבִ֣יךָ יָמִֽים
(Some words not found in UHB: also/yet grey-haired also/yet aged [are]_among,us great more,than_of,your_father days )
Eliphaz is using the term days to refer by association to how long a person has lived. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [people who are greater in age than your father] or [people who are older than your father]
OET (OET-RV) Both the grey-haired and the elderly are on our side,
⇔ ≈ People who’ve lived longer than your father.
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.