Verse List for JOB 4:16

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Elifaz (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) It stood still, but I didn’t recognise what it was. ⇔ There was an image in front of my eyes. ⇔ It was silent and then I heard a voice:

OET-LV It _stood _still and_not I _recognized appearance _of_its a _form was_to_before eyes _of_my a _whisper and_a _voice I _heard.

ULT It was standing still, but I was not recognizing its appearance. ⇔  An image, was in front of my eyes. ⇔  There was silence, then I heard a voice:

UST The spirit stopped there, but I could not see what it really looked like. ⇔  However, I knew that there was some being in front of me. ⇔ At first it did not speak, but then it said,

BSB & MSB It stood still, ⇔  but I could not discern its appearance; ⇔ a form loomed before my eyes, ⇔  and I heard a whispering voice:

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. ⇔  A form was before my eyes. ⇔  Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

NET It stands still, ⇔ but I cannot recognize its appearance; ⇔ an image is before my eyes, ⇔ and I hear a murmuring voice:

LSV It stands, and I do not discern its aspect,
A likeness [is] before my eyes,
Silence! And I hear a voice:

FBV Something stopped, but I couldn't see its face. My eyes could only make out a shape. It was totally quiet, and then I heard a voice:

T4T It stopped, but I could not see what form it had. ⇔  But I could sense that there was some being in front of me, ⇔ and it said in a quiet voice,

LEB • It stood still, but[fn] I could not recognize its appearance;
• a form was before[fn] my eyes;
• there was a hush, and I heard a voice:

BBE Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

Moff there it stood! ⇔  I could not make it out, ⇔ this form before mine eyes, ⇔  but in the hush I heard it murmuring:

JPS It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:

ASV It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; ⇔ A form was before mine eyes: ⇔ There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

DRA There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:

YLT It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude [is] over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:

Drby It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:

RV It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes: there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

SLT It will stand, and I shall not recognize its appearance: a form before mine eyes; I shall hear stillness and a voice:

Wbstr It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying ,

KJB-1769 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,[fn]

KJB-1611 It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, [fn]there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face, an image there was before myne eyes, and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce.
(He stood thereon and I knew not his face, an image there was before mine eyes, and in the stillness heard I a voice.)

Gnva Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,
(Then stood one, and I knew not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voice, saying,)

Cvdl Then stode there one before me, whose face I knewe not: an ymage there was, and the wether was still, so that I herde this voyce:
(Then stood there one before me, whose face I knew not: an image there was, and the wether was still, so that I herd/heard this voice:)

Wycl Oon stood, whos chere Y knewe not, an ymage bifor myn iyen; and Y herde a vois as of softe wynd.
(One stood, whose cheer I knew not, an image before mine eyes; and I heard a voice as of softe wynd.)

Luth Da stund ein Bild vor meinen Augen, und ich kannte seine Gestalt nicht; es war stille, und ich hörete eine Stimme:
(So stood a image/picture before/in_front_of my eyes, and I knew his shape(n) not; it what/which still(v), and I heard a/one voice(n):)

ClVg Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.[fn]
(He_stood some, whose not/no acknowledgebam face, image before eyes mine, and voice as_if auræ lenis I_heard.)

UHB יַעֲמֹ֤ד ׀ וְֽ⁠לֹא־אַכִּ֬יר מַרְאֵ֗⁠הוּ תְּ֭מוּנָה לְ⁠נֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑⁠י דְּמָמָ֖ה וָ⁠ק֣וֹל אֶשְׁמָֽע׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἀνέστην καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνων, εἶδον καὶ οὐκ ἦν μορφὴ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου, ἀλλʼ ἢ αὖραν καὶ φωνὴν ἤκουον.

BrTr I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, saying,