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Parallel JOB 20:16

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BI Job 20:16 ©

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

OET (OET-RV)They’ll suck on cobra poison.
 ⇔ The viper’s fangs will kill them.

OET-LVthe_poison_of cobras he_sucks kill_him the_tongue_of a_viper.

UHBרֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗⁠הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃
   (roʼsh-pətānim yīnāq tahargē⁠hū ləshōn ʼefˊeh.)

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).

BrLXXΘυμὸν δὲ δρακόντων θηλάσειεν, ἀνέλοι δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα ὄφεως.
   (Thumon de drakontōn thaʸlaseien, aneloi de auton glōssa ofeōs. )

BrTrAnd let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.

ULTHe will suck the poison of asps;
 ⇔ the tongue of the viper will kill him.

USTA person who does evil deeds will die as a result,
 ⇔ as certainly as the bite of a poisonous snake kills a person.

BSBHe will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
 ⇔ 

MSBHe will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
 ⇔ 


OEBThe poison of asps he has sucked,
 ⇔ And the tongue of the viper shall slay him.

WEBBEHe will suck cobra venom.
 ⇔ The viper’s tongue will kill him.

WMBB (Same as above)

NETHe sucks the poison of serpents;
 ⇔ the fangs of a viper kill him.

LSVHe sucks [the] gall of cobras, the tongue of a viper slays him.

FBVThey suck in snake venom; the bite of the viper will kill them.

T4TWhat wicked people do is like [MET] swallowing snake venom;
 ⇔ it will kill them like [MET] the bite of a poisonous snake kills people.

LEBNo LEB JOB book available

BBEHe takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

MoffNo Moff JOB book available

JPSHe shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

ASVHe shall suck the poison of asps:
 ⇔ The viper’s tongue shall slay him.

DRAHe shall suck the head of asps, and the viper’s tongue shall kill him.

YLTGall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

DrbyHe shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

RVHe shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

SLTHe shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall kill him.

WbstrHe shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

KJB-1769He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

KJB-1611He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
   (He shall suck the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.)

BshpsNo Bshps JOB book available

GnvaHe shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
   (He shall suck the gall/bile of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him. )

CvdlNo Cvdl JOB book available

WyclNo Wycl JOB book available

LuthNo Luth JOB book available

ClVgCaput aspidum suget, et occidet eum lingua viperæ.
   (Caput aspidum suget, and occidet him tongue/language viperæ. )

RP-GNTNo RP-GNT JOB book available


HAPHebrew accents and phrasing: See Allan Johnson's Hebrew accents and phrasing analysis.

TSNTyndale Study Notes:

20:14-16 poisonous venom . . . cobras . . . viper: In the end, the wicked are no longer deadly to others (Matt 3:7; Rom 3:13) but only to themselves (Prov 23:29-35).


UTNuW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק

head cobras suck

Zophar is speaking as if a wicked person would literally suck the poison of asps. This could mean: (1) that Zophar is alluding to the images in verses 12 and 13 of a wicked person savoring wickedness as if it were something he held under his tongue or against the roof of his mouth. Zophar would be saying that the delicacy that the wicked person savors or sucks turns out to be poison, meaning something that will kill him. Alternate translation: [In the end, the wickedness that he savors will kill him] (2) that an asp will bite the wicked person and he will absorb its poison as if he had sucked it in. This would be a more general statement. Alternate translation: [Something deadly will destroy him]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗⁠הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה

kill,him tongue_of viper's

Zophar may be reflecting a belief of his culture that the forked tongue of a snake was sharp and that snakes injected poison into people and animals by piercing them with their tongues. If Zophar understood, as people today now understand, that snakes inject their poison through their fangs after biting their victims, then Zophar would be using the term tongue by association to mean the mouth and thus the fangs. Alternate translation: [the fangs of the viper will kill him] or [a viper will kill him by biting him and injecting him with poison through his fangs]

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

פְּתָנִ֥ים & אֶפְעֶֽה

cobras & viper's

See how you translated the word “asps” in in [20:14](../20/14.md). A viper is another kind of poisonous snake If these snakes, or snakes in general, would not be familiar to your readers, you could use general terms. Alternate translation: [snakes … the poisonous snake] or [reptiles … the poisonous reptile]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

אֶפְעֶֽה

viper's

Zophar is not referring to a specific viper. He means one that might bite a wicked person. Alternate translation: [a viper]

BI Job 20:16 ©