Verse List for JOB 21:4

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) As for me, is my complaint against any person? ⇔ If it was, then you might expect me to be impatient.

OET-LV I to/for_ʼĀdām/humankind complaint _of_is_my and_if why not will _it _be _short my_breath/wind/spirit.

ULT As for me, is my complaint to a man? ⇔  And if, why may my breath not be short?

UST I am not protesting to people about my suffering, I am protesting to God! ⇔  And so it is certainly acceptable for me to be impatient!

BSB & MSB Is my complaint against a man? ⇔  Then why should I not be impatient?

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB As for me, is my complaint to man? ⇔  Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

NET Is my complaint against a man? ⇔ If so, why should I not be impatient?

LSV [Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short?

FBV Am I complaining against people? Of course not.[fn] Why shouldn't I be impatient?

T4T ⇔  “It is certainly not [RHQ] people against whom I am complaining, but God ⇔  And it is certainly [RHQ] right for me to be impatient!

LEB • As for me, is my complaint for human beings?
• And if so, why cannot I be impatient?

BBE As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

Moff It is not against man that I complain; ⇔  so why should I be patient?

JPS As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?

ASV As for me, is my complaint to man? ⇔ And why should I not be impatient?

DRA Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

YLT I — to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May not my temper become short?

Drby As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

RV As for me, is my complaint to man? and why should I not be impatient?

SLT I, is my complaint to man? and then wherefore shall not my spirit be shortened?

Wbstr As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so , why should not my spirit be troubled?

KJB-1769 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?[fn]

KJB-1611 As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be [fn]troubled?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?
(Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit then be in sore trouble?)

Gnva Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
(Do I direct my talk to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?)

Cvdl Is it with a man, that I make this disputacio? Which yf it were so, shulde not my sprete be the in sore trouble?
(Is it with a man, that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit be the in sore trouble?)

Wycl Whether my disputyng is ayens man, that skilfuli Y owe not to be sori?
(Whether my disputing is against man, that skilfuli I owe not to be sori?)

Luth Handele ich denn mit einem Menschen, daß mein Mut hierin nicht sollte unwillig sein?
(Handele I because/than with on people, that my courage/heart/spirit herein not should unwilling be?)

ClVg Numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est, ut merito non debeam contristari?[fn]
(Is_it on_the_contrary man discussion my it_is, as deservedly not/no debeam to_be_sad?)

UHB הֶ֭⁠אָנֹכִי לְ⁠אָדָ֣ם שִׂיחִ֑⁠י וְ⁠אִם־מַ֝דּ֗וּעַ לֹא־תִקְצַ֥ר רוּחִֽ⁠י׃ ‡

BrLXX Τί γάρ; μὴ ἀνθρώπου μου ἡ ἔλεγξις; ἢ διὰ τί οὐ θυμωθήσομαι;

BrTr What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?