Verse List for JOB 8:17

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Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Bildad (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Its roots are twisted around over a heap. ⇔ They find the cracks between stones.

OET-LV Over a _heap roots _of_its they _are _entangled between _of stones it _sees.

ULT Its roots are wrapped around a heap; ⇔  it looks for a house of rocks.

UST Godless people are like plants whose roots once twisted securely around piles of stones ⇔  and clung tightly to rocks.

BSB & MSB His roots wrap around the rock heap; ⇔  he looks for a home among the stones.

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. ⇔  He sees the place of stones.

NET It wraps its roots around a heap of stones ⇔ and it looks for a place among stones.

LSV His roots are wrapped by a heap,
He looks for a house of stones.

FBV It twists its roots down through the stones, and holds on to rock.

T4T The roots of those plants twist around piles of stones ⇔  and cling tightly to rocks.

LEB • His roots twine over a stone heap;
• he sees a house of stone.

BBE His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

Moff with roots twined round the spring, ⇔  thriving inside the greenhouse;

JPS His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.

ASV His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, ⇔ He beholdeth the place of stones.

DRA His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.

YLT By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

Drby His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

RV His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
(His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth/beholds the place of stones.)

SLT His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.

Wbstr His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

KJB-1769 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
(His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth/sees the place of stones.)

KJB-1611 His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones.
(The roots thereof are wrapped about the fountain, and are folden about the house of stones.)

Gnva The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
(The roots thereof are wrapped about the fountain, and are folden about ye/you_all house of stones.)

Cvdl it taketh many rotes, in so moch that it is like an house off stones.
(it taketh/takes many roots, in so much that it is like an house off stones.)

Wycl Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.
(Rootis thereof should be made thick on an heap of stones, and it shall dwell among stones.)

Luth Seine Saat stehet dicke bei den Quellen und sein Haus auf Steinen.
(His seed stands thick/fat at/in the source/spring(n)n and be house on/in/to stones(n).)

ClVg Super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, et inter lapides commorabitur.[fn]
(Above/Over heap of_rocks roots his/her densabuntur, and between stones will_stay.)

UHB עַל־גַּ֭ל שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣י⁠ו יְסֻבָּ֑כוּ בֵּ֖ית אֲבָנִ֣ים יֶחֱזֶֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν λίθων κοιμᾶται· ἐν δὲ μέσῳ χαλίκων ζήσεται.

BrTr He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the midst of flints.