Parallel ISA 29:21

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BSB those who indict a man with a word,
⇔ who ensnare the mediator at the gate,
 ⇔ and who with false charges
⇔ deprive the innocent of justice.

OEB with those who have falsely condemned,
⇔ and sought to entrap the judge,
⇔ and quibbled to injure the innocent.

WEB who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

NET those who bear false testimony against a person,
 ⇔ who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate
 ⇔ and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

LSV Who cause men to sin in word,
And lay a snare for a reprover in the gate,
And turn aside the righteous into emptiness.

FBV those who say things to trick others into sin, those who trap people by legal arguments in court, those who lie to mislead the innocent.

T4T Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear.
⇔ Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court persuade judges to make unjust decisions.

LEB  •  and set a trap for the[fn] in the gate •  and guide away the righteous by emptiness.

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BBE Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

MOF No MOF ISA book available

JPS That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

ASV that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

DRA That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

YLT Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

DBY that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment of] the righteous by futility.

RV that make a man an offender in a cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

WBS That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.

KJB That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

BB Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.
  (Making a man to sin in the word, and that took him in a snare, which reproued them in the open place, and they that have turned the cause of the righteous to naught.)

GNV Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.
  (Which made a man to sin in ye/you_all word, and took him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the just to fall without cause. )

CB soch as laboure to drawe me vnto synne: and yt disceaue him, which reproueth them in the gate, & soch as turne good personnes to vanite.
  (soch as laboure to drawe me unto synne: and it deceive him, which reproueth them in the gate, and such as turn good personnes to vanite.)

WYC whiche maden men to do synne in word, and disseyueden a repreuere in the yate, and bowiden awey in veyn fro a iust man.
  (whiche maden men to do sin in word, and disseyueden a repreuere in the gate, and bowiden awey in veyn from a just man.)

LUT welche die Leute sündigen machen durchs Predigen und stellen dem nach, der sie straft im Tor, weichen durch Lügen vom Gerechten.
  (welche the Leute sündigen make durchs Predigen and stellen to_him nach, the they/she/them straft in_the Tor, weichen through Lügen from_the Gerechten.)

CLV qui peccare faciebant homines in verbo, et arguentem in porta supplantabant, et declinaverunt frustra a justo.[fn]
  (who peccare faciebant homines in verbo, and arguentem in porta supplantabant, and declinaverunt frustra a justo.)

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BRN and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

BrLXX καὶ οἱ ποιοῦντες ἁμαρτεῖν ἀνθρώπους ἐν λόγῳ· πάντας δὲ τοὺς ἐλέγχοντας ἐν πύλαις πρόσκομμα θήσουσιν, ὅτι ἐπλαγίασαν ἐπʼ ἀδίκοις δίκαιον.
  (kai hoi poiountes hamartein anthrōpous en logōi; pantas de tous elegⱪontas en pulais proskomma thaʸsousin, hoti eplagiasan epʼ adikois dikaion. )