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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ God doesn’t reject people who are blameless.
⇔ And he doesn’t join in with those who do evil.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
אֵ֭ל לֹ֣א יִמְאַס־תָּ֑ם
god not reject (Some words not found in UHB: look god not reject blameless and=not take on_[the],hand_of evildoers )
If it would be clearer in your language, you could use a positive expression to translate this double negative that consists of the negative particle not and the negative verb reject. Alternate translation: [God will always accept the innocent]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
תָּ֑ם
(Some words not found in UHB: look god not reject blameless and=not take on_[the],hand_of evildoers )
Bildad is using the adjective innocent as a noun to mean a certain kind of person. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: [a person who is innocent]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וְלֹֽא־יַ֝חֲזִ֗יק בְּיַד־מְרֵעִֽים
and=not take (Some words not found in UHB: look god not reject blameless and=not take on_[the],hand_of evildoers )
Bildad is speaking as if God would literally hold evildoers by the hand in order to keep them from falling down. He means that God does not strengthen or support people who do evil. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [but he will not help evildoers]
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ God doesn’t reject people who are blameless.
⇔ And he doesn’t join in with those who do evil.
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.