Verse List for SNG 8:1

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B I ◄ ↨ Sng 8:1 ↓ → ═ ©

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

OET (OET-RV) Who will give you to me like a brother, ⇔ who nursed at my mother’s breasts? ⇔ If I found you outside, I would kiss you. ⇔ Yes, they wouldn’t despise me.

OET-LV Who will_he _give _you like_a _brother to_me the _sucking _child of _the _breasts _of my _mother _of_my I_will _find _you on_outside I_will _kiss _you[fn][fn][fn] also not people _will _despise to_me.

ULT Who will give you like a brother to me, ⇔ who nursed at the breasts of my mother? ⇔ If I found you outside, I would kiss you. ⇔ Yes, they would not despise me.

UST I wish that you were like my brother, ⇔ my own brother, who nursed from my mother’s breasts when he was a baby. ⇔  Because then, whenever I met you outside the house, I could kiss you, ⇔ and no one would criticize me.

BSB & MSB O that you [were] to me like a brother ⇔  who nursed at my mother ’s breasts! ⇔ If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, ⇔  and no one would despise me.

OEB No OEB SNG book available

WEBBE & WMBB Oh that you were like my brother, ⇔  who nursed from the breasts of my mother! ⇔ If I found you outside, I would kiss you; ⇔  yes, and no one would despise me.

NET Oh, how I wish you were my little brother, ⇔ nursing at my mother’s breasts; ⇔ if I saw you outside, I could kiss you – ⇔ surely no one would despise me!

LSV Who makes you as a brother to me,
Suckling the breasts of my mother? I find you outside, I kiss you,
Indeed, they do not despise me,

FBV How I wish you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! Then if I met you on the street I could kiss you and no one would tell me off.

T4T I wish that you were my brother ⇔  who ◄nursed at/drank milk from► my mother’s breasts when you were a baby, ⇔ because, if you were my brother, if I saw you when you were outside the house, ⇔  I could kiss you, ⇔  and no one would say that my doing that was wrong.

LEB
• How I wish that you were my little brother ,[fn][fn]
• who nursed upon my mother’s breasts ![fn]
• If I met you outside ,[fn] I would kiss you,
• and no one would despise me ![fn]

BBE Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

Moff Ah, were you but my brother, ⇔  nursed at the breasts of my mother, ⇔ I would kiss you wherever I met you, ⇔  with none to despise me;

JPS Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.

ASV Oh that thou wert as my brother, ⇔ That sucked the breasts of my mother! ⇔ When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; ⇔ Yea, and none would despise me.

DRA Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?

YLT Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,

Drby Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.

RV Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.
(Oh that thou/you were as my brother, that sucked the breast/chests of my mother! when I should find thee/you without, I would kiss thee/you; yea, and none would despise me.)

SLT Who will give thee as a brother to me, sucking the breasts of my mother? I shall find thee without, I shall kiss thee; also they shall not despise me.

Wbstr O that thou wert as my brother, that was nourished at the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yes, I should not be despised.

KJB-1769 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.[fn]
(Oh that thou/you were as my brother, that sucked the breast/chests of my mother! when I should find thee/you without, I would kiss thee/you; yea, I should not be despised.)

KJB-1611 ¶ [fn]O that thou wert as my brother that sucked the brests of my mother, when I should find thee without, I would kisse thee, yet I should not be despised.
(¶ Oh that thou/you were as my brother that sucked the breast/chests of my mother, when I should find thee/you without, I would kiss thee/you, yet I should not be despised.)

Bshps O that I might finde thee without and kisse thee, whom I loue as my brother whiche suckt my mothers brestes, and that thou shalt not be dispised,
(Oh that I might find thee/you without and kiss thee/you, whom I love as my brother which sucked my mothers breast/chests, and that thou/you shalt/shall not be despised,)

Gnva Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the brestes of my mother: I would finde thee without, I would kisse thee, then they should not despise thee.
(Oh that thou/you werest/were as my brother that sucked the breast/chests of my mother: I would find thee/you without, I would kiss thee/you, then they should not despise thee/you.)

Cvdl O that I might fynde the without & kysse ye, whom I loue as my brother which suckte my mothers brestes: & that thou woldest not be offended,
(Oh that I might find the without and kiss ye/you_all, whom I love as my brother which sucked my mothers breast/chests: and that thou/you would not be offended,)

Wycl Who `mai grante to me thee, my brother, soukynge the tetis of my modir, that Y fynde thee aloone without forth, and that Y kisse thee, and no man dispise me thanne?
(Who may grant to me thee/you, my brother, sucking the teats/nipples of my mother, that I find thee/you alone without forth, and that I kiss thee/you, and no man despise me then?)

Luth O daß ich dich, mein Bruder, der du meiner Mutter Brüste saugest, draußen fände und dich küssen müßte, daß mich niemand höhnete!
(O that I you/yourself, my brother, the/of_the you(sg) mine mother breasts sucked, outside found and you/yourself kiss would_have_to, that me no_one sneered!)

ClVg [Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meæ, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et jam me nemo despiciat?[fn]
([Who to_me give you(sg) brother mine, sucking breasts mother my, as I_will_find you(sg) outside, and kiss_off you(sg), and already me nobody/no_one let_him_look_down?)

UHB מִ֤י יִתֶּנְ⁠ךָ֙ כְּ⁠אָ֣ח לִ֔⁠י יוֹנֵ֖ק שְׁדֵ֣י אִמִּ֑⁠י אֶֽמְצָאֲ⁠ךָ֤ בַ⁠חוּץ֙ אֶשָׁ֣קְ⁠ךָ֔ גַּ֖ם לֹא־יָב֥וּזוּ לִֽ⁠י׃ ‡

BrLXX Τίς δῴη σε, ἀδελφιδέ μου, θηλάζοντα μαστοὺς μητρός μου; εὑροῦσά σε ἔξω φιλήσω σε, καί γε οὐκ ἐξουδενώσουσί μοι.

BrTr I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, they should not despise me.