Simple verse list for JOB 41:3

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Original JOB 40:27: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Yahweh (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Will it beg you over and over for mercy? ⇔ ≈ Maybe if it says tender things to you?

OET-LV (JOB 40:27) [fn] Will_it _multiply to_you supplications or will _it _speak to_you soft_words/messages.

ULT Will it multiply supplications to you? ⇔ If it will speak tender, things to you?

UST ⇔ Leviathan would certainly not plead with you to act mercifully toward it! ⇔ It would not use sweet talk to try to get you not to harm it!

BSB & MSB Will he beg you for mercy ⇔ or speak to you softly?

OEB Mapped passage is not available in this edition.

WEBBE & WMBB Will he make many petitions to you, ⇔ or will he speak soft words to you?

MSG ^(1-11)“Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod and stuff him in your creel? Can you lasso him with a rope, or snag him with an anchor? Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech? Will he apply for a job with you to run errands and serve you the rest of your life? Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children? Will you put him on display in the market and have shoppers haggle over the price? Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head? If you so much as lay a hand on him, you won’t live to tell the story. What hope would you have with such a creature? Why, one look at him would do you in! If you can’t hold your own against his glowering visage, how, then, do you expect to stand up to me? Who could confront me and get by with it? I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!

NET Will it make numerous supplications to you, ⇔ will it speak to you with tender words?

LSV Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?

FBV Will it beg you to let it go? Or will it talk softly to you?

T4T Will they plead with you to act mercifully toward them ⇔ or ◄use sweet talk/speak to you nicely► in order that you will not harm them?

LEB • Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? • Or will it speak gentle words to you?

BBE Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

Moff Will he make many a prayer to you? ⇔ Will he speak softly to you?

JPS Mapped passage is not available in this edition.

ASV Will he make many supplications unto thee? ⇔ Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

DRA (JOB 40:22) Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?

YLT Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

Drby Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?

RV Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?
(Will he make many supplications unto thee/you? or will he speak soft words unto thee/you?)

SLT Will he multiply supplications to thee? will he speak soft things to thee?

Wbstr Will he make many supplications to thee? will he speak soft words to thee?

KJB-1769 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
(Will he make many supplications unto thee/you? will he speak soft words unto thee/you?)

KJB-1611 Will he make many supplications vnto thee? will he speake soft words vnto thee?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Wyl he make many faire wordes with thee thinkest thou or flatter thee?
(Will he make many fair words with thee/you thinkest/think thou/you or flatter thee/you?)

Gnva I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.
(I will not keep silence concerning his parts, nor his power nor his comely proportion.)

Cvdl Wyll he make many fayre wordes with the (thynkest thou) or flatre the:
(Will he make many fair words with the (think thou) or flatter them:)

Wycl (JOB 40:22) Whether he schal multiplie preieris to thee, ether schal speke softe thingis to thee?
(Whether he shall multiply prayers to thee/you, either shall speak soft things to thee/you?)

Luth (JOB 40:27) Meinest du, er werde dir viel Flehens machen oder dir heucheln?
(My you(sg), he become you/to_you(sg) many supplication/request make or you/to_you(sg) hypocritical?)

ClVg (JOB 40:22) Numquid multiplicabit ad te preces, aut loquetur tibi mollia?
(Is_it will_multiply to you(sg) prayers, or will_speak to_you soft?)

UHB 27 הֲ⁠יַרְבֶּ֣ה אֵ֭לֶי⁠ךָ תַּחֲנוּנִ֑ים אִם־יְדַבֵּ֖ר אֵלֶ֣י⁠ךָ רַכּֽוֹת׃ ‡

BrLXX (JOB 40:27) Λαλήσει δέ σοι δεήσει, ἱκετηρίᾳ μαλακῶς;

BrTr (JOB 40:27) Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?