YAC 4:3 Parallel Verse View

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

OET (OET-RV) and when you all do ask, it doesn’t get answered because you ask with wrong motives—trying get what you want to spend on your own wants.

Key: khaki:verbs, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may spend on your lusts.

UST But even when you do ask God for things, he does not give them to you, because you are asking with bad motives. You are asking for things just so that you can use them to enjoy yourselves in wrong ways.

BSB [And when] you do ask {you do} not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander [it] on your pleasures.

BLB You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it in your pleasures.

AICNT You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your pleasures.

OEB You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose – to spend what you get on your pleasures.

WEBBE You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

LSV you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.

FBV You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures.

TCNT You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

T4T And even when you do ask him, he does not give you what you ask for because you are asking for the wrong reason. You are asking for things in order that you may use them just to ◄enjoy yourselves/make yourselves happy►.

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BBE You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

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Wymth or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

ASV Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

DRA You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

YLT ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].

Drby Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

RV Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
(Ye/You_all ask, and receive not, because ye/you_all ask amiss, that ye/you_all may spend it in your pleasures. )

SLT Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.

Wbstr Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

KJB-1769 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
(Ye/You_all ask, and receive not, because ye/you_all ask amiss, that ye/you_all may consume it upon your lusts. )

KJB-1611 Ye aske and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that yee may consume it vpon your [fn]lusts.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

4:3 Or, pleasures.

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Gnva Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.
(Ye/You_all aske, and receive not, because ye/you_all ask amiss, that ye/you_all might lay the same out on your pleasures. )

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TNT Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes.
(Ye/You_all axe and receive not because ye/you_all axe a mysse: even to consume it upon your(pl) volupteousnes. )

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ClVg Petitis, et non accipitis: eo quod male petatis: ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
(Petitis, and not/no receivesis: by_him that male petatis: as in/into/on concupiscentiis yours insumatis. )

UGNT αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
(aiteite kai ou lambanete, dioti kakōs aiteisthe, hina en tais haʸdonais humōn dapanaʸsaʸte.)

SBL-GNT αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
(aiteite kai ou lambanete, dioti kakōs aiteisthe, hina en tais haʸdonais humōn dapanaʸsaʸte.)

RP-GNT αἰτεῖτε, καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
(aiteite, kai ou lambanete, dioti kakōs aiteisthe, hina en tais haʸdonais humōn dapanaʸsaʸte.)

TC-GNT αἰτεῖτε, καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
(aiteite, kai ou lambanete, dioti kakōs aiteisthe, hina en tais haʸdonais humōn dapanaʸsaʸte. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast

αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε

˱you˲_˓are˒_requesting and not ˱you_all˲_˓are˒_receiving

James is using the word translated and to introduce a contrast between these two clauses. Alternate translation: [You ask but you do not receive]

κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε

wrongly ˱you_all˲_˓are˒_requesting

James does not mean that his readers are asking for things in the wrong way. He means that they are asking for the wrong reason. Alternate translation: [you are asking for the wrong reason]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε

in_order_that in the gratifications ˱of˲_you_all ˱you_all˲_˓may˒_spend_‹it›

James says that his readers would spend what they acquired on their lusts. Alternate translation: [so that you could gratify your sinful desires]

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