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OET (OET-RV) but Jews who chased after righteousness by obeying The Law, didn’t achieve it?
Note 1 topic: translate-names
Ἰσραὴλ
Israel
See how you translated this name in 9:27.
Note 2 topic: grammar-collectivenouns
νόμον & νόμον
/a/_law & /the/_law
In this verse law refers to the laws that God gave the Jews by dictating them to Moses. See how you translated this use of law in 2:12.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
νόμον δικαιοσύνης
/a/_law ˱of˲_righteousness
Paul is using the possessive form to describe a law that was for the purpose of righteousness. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “a law for righteousness”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
δικαιοσύνης
˱of˲_righteousness
See how you translated this word in the previous verse.
9:31 who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law (literally who pursued the law of righteousness): Law of righteousness is an idiom that means “righteousness through the law.”
OET (OET-RV) but Jews who chased after righteousness by obeying The Law, didn’t achieve it?
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.