JOB 16:21 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
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).

BrLXX Εἴη δὲ ἔλεγχος ἀνδρὶ ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ.
(Eiaʸ de elegⱪos andri enanti Kuriou, kai huiōi anthrōpou tōi plaʸsion autou.)

BrTr Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbour!

ULT And he will argue for a man with God,
⇔ and a son of man for his neighbor.

UST My friend will plead with God for me in heaven
⇔ the same way one person pleads for another person here on earth.

BSB & MSB Oh, that a man might plead with God
⇔ as [he] [pleads] with his neighbor!

OEB No OEB JOB 16:21 book available

WEBBE & WMBB that he would maintain the right of a man with God,
⇔ of a son of man with his neighbour!

NET and he contends with God on behalf of man
⇔ as a man pleads for his friend.

LSV And He reasons for a man with God,
As a son of man for his friend.

FBV I want my witness to speak for me with God as someone does for their friend.

T4T I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me
⇔ like people plead for their friends.

LEB • and it argues[fn] for a mortal with God,
• and as a human[fn] for his friend.

16:1 Or “but may someone argue”

16:1 Literally “a son of man”

BBE So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

Moff that he would plead for man against Himself,
⇔ and vindicate a man against his friends!

JPS That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!

ASV That he would maintain the right of a man with God,
⇔ And of a son of man with his neighbor!

DRA (JOB 16:22) And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

YLT And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

Drby Oh that there were arbitration for a man with [fn]God, as a son of man for his friend!

16.21 Eloah

RV That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbour!

SLT Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor?

Wbstr O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

KJB-1769 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour![fn]
(Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth/leads for his neighbour!)

16.21 neighbour: or, friend

KJB-1611 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his [fn]neighbour.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

16:21 Or, friend.

Bshps O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:
(Oh that a body might pleat with God, as one man doeth/does with another:)

Gnva Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
(Oh that a man might plead with God, as man with his neighbour!)

Cvdl Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,
(Though a body might pleat with God, as one man doeth/does with another,)

Wycl (JOB 16:22) And `Y wolde, that a man were demed so with God, as the sone of man is demed with his felowe.
(And I would, that a man were judged so with God, as the son of man is judged with his fellow.)

Luth Wenn ein Mann könnte mit GOtt rechten wie ein Menschenkind mit seinem Freunde!
(If/When a man could with God right as/like a human_child with his friends!)

ClVg (JOB 16:22) atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.[fn]
(and_yet I_wish so would_be_judged man when/with to_God, how is_judged son of_man when/with colleague his_own.)

16.22 Atque utinam, etc. Peccatores quidem nos, etc., usque ad sed tamen de ejus brevitate se consolatur.

16.22 And_yet I_wish, etc. Sinners indeed us, etc., until to but nevertheless from/about his/her shortness himself consoles.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

לְ⁠גֶ֣בֶר

for,a_man

When he refers to a man in the first part of this verse, Job seems to be speaking about himself in the third person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this in the first person. Alternate translation: [for me]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וּֽ⁠בֶן־אָדָ֥ם לְ⁠רֵעֵֽ⁠הוּ

and,a_child_of humankind for,companion_of,his

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: [and a son of man argues for his neighbor]

Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

וּֽ⁠בֶן־אָדָ֥ם לְ⁠רֵעֵֽ⁠הוּ

and,a_child_of humankind for,companion_of,his

In this instance, Job is using the word and to say that the phrase it introduces is just as true as the previous phrase. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this in your translation. Alternate translation: [just as a son of man argues for his neighbor]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

וּֽ⁠בֶן־אָדָ֥ם לְ⁠רֵעֵֽ⁠הוּ

and,a_child_of humankind for,companion_of,his

Although the terms son and man are masculine, the phrase a son of man has a generic sense and means “a human being.” If it would be helpful to your readers, you could use language in your translation that is clearly inclusive of both men and women. Alternate translation: [just as one human being argues on behalf of another human being]

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