JOB 15:11 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Isn’t it enough when God comforts you?
 ⇔ ≈Aren’t his gentle words enough for you?

Key: blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Are the consolations of God too small for you,
⇔ or a word in gentleness to you?

UST God wants to comfort you
⇔ and speak gently to you,
⇔ but you do not appreciate that.

BSB Are the consolations of God not enough for you,
⇔ even words spoken gently to you?

OEB Dost thou spurn the divine consolations,
⇔ The word that dealt with thee so gently?

WEB Are the consolations of God too small for you,
⇔ even the word that is gentle toward you?

NET Are God’s consolations too trivial for you;
 ⇔ or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

LSV Are the comforts of God too few for you? And a gentle word [is] with you,

FBV Are the comforts God provides too little for you? Are God's gentle words not enough for you?

T4T God wants to comfort you,
 ⇔ and to speak gently/kindly to you;
⇔ ◄is that not enough for you/do you need more than that►?

LEB • a word spoken gently with you?

BBE Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?

ASV Are the consolations of God too small for thee,
 ⇔ Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

DRA Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

YLT Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee,

DBY Are the consolations of [fn]God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?

15.11 El

RV Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?

WBS Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

KJB Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
(Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? )

BB Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying worde.
(Thinkest thou/you it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying word.)

GNV Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
(Seeme the consolations of God small unto thee? is this thing strange unto thee? )

CB Dost thou nomore regarde the comforte of God? but thy wicked wordes wil not suffre the.
(Dost thou/you nomore regarde the comfort of God? but thy/your wicked words will not suffer them.)

WYC Whether it is greet, that God coumforte thee? But thi schrewid wordis forbeden this.
(Whether it is greet, that God coumforte thee? But thy/your schrewid words forbeden this.)

LUT Sollten Gottes Tröstungen so geringe vor dir gelten? Aber du hast irgend noch ein heimlich Stück bei dir.
(Sollten God’s Tröstungen so geringe before/in_front_of you gelten? But you hast irgend still a heimlich Stück bei dir.)

CLV Numquid grande est ut consoletur te Deus? sed verba tua prava hoc prohibent.[fn]
(Numquid grande it_is as consoletur you(sg) God? but verba your prava hoc prohibent.)

15.11 Nunquid grande est? Sequitur: Quid te elevat cor tuum. Sæpe justorum mens ad altiora contemplanda suspenditur, ut exterius eorum facies obstupuisse videatur. Sed hanc contemplationis vim reprobi per hypocrisim fieri putant; quod enim in se est, in aliis putant.

15.11 Nunquid grande est? Sequitur: Quid you(sg) elevat heart tuum. Sæpe justorum mens to altiora contemplanda suspenditur, as exterius eorum facies obstupuisse videatur. But hanc contemplationis vim reprobi per hypocrisim fieri putant; that because in se it_is, in aliis putant.

BRN Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly.

BrLXX Ὀλίγα ὧν ἡμάρτηκας μεμαστίγωσαι, μεγάλως ὑπερβαλλόντως λελάληκας.
(Oliga hōn haʸmartaʸkas memastigōsai, megalōs huperballontōs lelalaʸkas. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הַ⁠מְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּ⁠ךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝⁠דָבָ֗ר לָ⁠אַ֥ט עִמָּֽ⁠ךְ

?,small for,you consolations god and,word in,gently with,you

Eliphaz is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “You seem to consider the consolations of God to be too small for you. You seem to feel the same way about a word spoken in gentleness to you.”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

הַ⁠מְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּ⁠ךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל

?,small for,you consolations god

Eliphaz is speaking as if Job literally considered the consolations of God to be small in size. He means that Job does not appear to consider them significant. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Do you consider the consolations of God to be insignificant” or “You seem to consider the consolations of God to be insignificant”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל

consolations god

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of consolations, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “Is what God is doing to comfort you”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וְ֝⁠דָבָ֗ר לָ⁠אַ֥ט עִמָּֽ⁠ךְ

and,word in,gently with,you

Job is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “or is a word in gentleness to you too small for you”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וְ֝⁠דָבָ֗ר לָ⁠אַ֥ט עִמָּֽ⁠ךְ

and,word in,gently with,you

Eliphaz is using the term word to mean what he and the other friends have been saying to Job by using words. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “or what we have been telling you in gentleness”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וְ֝⁠דָבָ֗ר לָ⁠אַ֥ט עִמָּֽ⁠ךְ

and,word in,gently with,you

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of gentleness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “or what we have been telling you gently”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וְ֝⁠דָבָ֗ר לָ⁠אַ֥ט עִמָּֽ⁠ךְ

and,word in,gently with,you

It may not seem that Job’s friends have been speaking to him in gentleness. Eliphaz has just said that he is wicked and guilty, and the other friends have said similar things. Eliphaz could mean: (1) that he and the other friends have been trying to speak to Job as gently as they could. Alternate translation: “or words that your friends have been speaking to you as gently as they could” (2) that given Job’s apparent disregard for God’s consolations, he and the other friends have been too gentle with Job. It may be helpful to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: “Perhaps we need to speak even more sternly to you!”

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