JOB 22:12 Parallel Verse View

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22:12 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative, 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 Is not God in the height of the heavens?
⇔ And behold the head of the stars, that they are high!

UST But God lives high up in the heavens.
⇔ He looks at the earth from a place that is even higher than the stars.

BSB ⇔ Is not God as high as the heavens?
⇔ Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

OEB Is not God in the heights of heaven?
⇔ And the tops of the high stars He seeth.

WEB ⇔ “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
⇔ See the height of the stars, how high they are!

WMB (Same as above)

NET “Is not God on high in heaven?
⇔ And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

LSV Is God not high [in] the heavens? And see the summit of the stars,
That they are high.

FBV Doesn't God live in highest heaven and looks down on even the highest stars?

T4T ⇔ “But consider this, Job: God lives [RHQ] high up in the heavens.
⇔ From there he [RHQ] looks down on the highest stars.

LEB • Is not God in the height of the heavens? But[fn] see how lofty are[fn]

?:? Hebrew “And”

?:? Literally “top of stars,” or “head of stars”

BBE Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

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JPS Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are!

ASV ⇔ Is not God in the height of heaven?
⇔ And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

DRA Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

YLT Is not God high [in] heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.

Drby Is not [fn]God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

22.12 Eloah

RV Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Wbstr Is not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!

KJB-1769 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are![fn]

22.12 height of the stars: Heb. head of the stars

KJB-1611 [fn]Is not God in the height of heauen? and behold the height of the starres how high they are.
(Modernised spelling is same as used by KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

22:12 Heb. the head of the starres.

Bshps Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are.
(Is not God on high in the heaven? behold the heyght of the stars how high they are.)

Gnva Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
(Is not God on high in the heaven? and behold the height of the stars how high they are.)

Cvdl Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye,
(Now because it God is hyer the the heavens, and because thou/you sayest it the stars are so hye,)

Wyc Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
(Whether thou/you thenkist, that God is hiyere than heaven, and is enhaunsid above the coppe of sterris?)

Luth Siehe, GOtt ist hoch droben im Himmel und siehet die Sterne droben in der Höhe.
(See, God is hoch droben in_the heaven and siehet the Sterne droben in the/of_the Höhe.)

ClVg an non cogitas quod Deus excelsior cælo sit, et super stellarum verticem sublimetur?[fn]
(an not/no cogitas that God excelsior cælo let_it_be, and over stellarum verticem sublimetur?)

22.12 An non cogitas quod Deus. Quasi, an ideo, etc., usque ad quia stulto judicio solos se sapientes putant.

22.12 An not/no cogitas that God. Quasi, an ideo, etc., until to because stulto yudicio solos se sapientes putant.

BrTr Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?

BrLXX Μὴ οὐχὶ ὁ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ναίων ἐφορᾷ; τοὺς δὲ ὕβρει φερομένους ἐταπείνωσε;
(Maʸ ouⱪi ho ta hupsaʸla naiōn efora; tous de hubrei feromenous etapeinōse;)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הֲֽ⁠לֹא־אֱ֭לוֹהַּ גֹּ֣בַהּ שָׁמָ֑יִם

?,not god high heavens

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: “God is in the height of the heavens!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

גֹּ֣בַהּ שָׁמָ֑יִם

high heavens

Eliphaz is using this possessive form to describe the highest part of the heavens. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “in the highest heaven” or “in heaven, above the sky”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וּ⁠רְאֵ֤ה רֹ֖אשׁ כּוֹכָבִ֣ים כִּי־רָֽמּוּ

and,see head stars that/for/because/then/when lofty

In this context, the word head means “height.” If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “And behold how high the stars are”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וּ⁠רְאֵ֤ה רֹ֖אשׁ כּוֹכָבִ֣ים כִּי־רָֽמּוּ

and,see head stars that/for/because/then/when lofty

The implication is that since God is above the stars, and the stars are very high up, the highest things that people can see, then God must be supremely high. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “God is even above the stars, even though those are the highest things that we can see”

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