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 1 Sam C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 8 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
OET-LV And_ YHWH _he/it_said to Shəmūʼēl listen to_the_voice_of the_people to_all/each/any/every that they_will_say to_you if/because not you they_have_rejected if/because DOM_me they_have_rejected from_reigning over_them.
OET (OET-RV) who replied, “Listen to everything that the people are saying, because they’re not rejecting you, but they’re rejecting me from reigning over them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
שְׁמַע֙ בְּק֣וֹל הָעָ֔ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said YHWH to/towards Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) listen to,the_voice_of of,the_people to=all/each/any/every which/who say to,you that/for/because/then/when not ,you rejected that/for/because/then/when DOM=me rejected from,reigning over,them )
See the discussion of the term “listen” in the Introduction to 1 Samuel, and see how you translated the similar expression in 2:25. Alternate translation: [Obey the voice of the people]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
שְׁמַע֙ בְּק֣וֹל הָעָ֔ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said YHWH to/towards Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) listen to,the_voice_of of,the_people to=all/each/any/every which/who say to,you that/for/because/then/when not ,you rejected that/for/because/then/when DOM=me rejected from,reigning over,them )
The author is using the term voice to represent what the people asked for by using their collective voice. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [Do what the people have asked for]
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases
כִּ֣י
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said YHWH to/towards Shəmūʼēl/(Samuel) listen to,the_voice_of of,the_people to=all/each/any/every which/who say to,you that/for/because/then/when not ,you rejected that/for/because/then/when DOM=me rejected from,reigning over,them )
Here the word For introduces not a reason but a further observation. Alternate translation: [In fact]
OET-LV And_ YHWH _he/it_said to Shəmūʼēl listen to_the_voice_of the_people to_all/each/any/every that they_will_say to_you if/because not you they_have_rejected if/because DOM_me they_have_rejected from_reigning over_them.
OET (OET-RV) who replied, “Listen to everything that the people are saying, because they’re not rejecting you, but they’re rejecting me from reigning over them.
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.