JOB 22:15 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Will you stay on the ancient paths,
⇔ on which wicked people regularly tred?

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 Μὴ τρίβον αἰώνιον φυλάξεις, ἣν ἐπάτησαν ἄνδρες δίκαιοι,
(Maʸ tribon aiōnion fulaxeis, haʸn epataʸsan andres dikaioi, )

UST You should not continue to conduct your life
⇔ in the way that evil people have done for many years.

OEB Wilt thou keep to the ancient way,
⇔ Which men of sin have trodden,

WEBBE Will you keep the old way,
⇔ which wicked men have trodden,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Will you keep to the old path
⇔ that evil men have walked –

LSV Do you observe the path of the age,
That men of iniquity have trodden,

FBV Why do you insist on following the traditional thinking of the wicked?[fn]

22:15 Literally, “the old paths on which evil people walked.”

T4T Will you continue to conduct your life the old way
⇔ that evil people have done for many years?

LEB • to the way of old that the people of mischief have trod,

BBE Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

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JPS Wilt thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

ASV Wilt thou keep the old way
⇔ Which wicked men have trodden?

DRA Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?

YLT The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

Drby Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?

RV Wilt thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Wbstr Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

KJB-1769 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
(Hast thou/you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? )

KJB-1611 Hast thou marked the olde way which wicked men haue troden?
(Hast thou/you marked the old way which wicked men have troden?)

Bshps Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked?
(Hast thou/you marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men have walked?)

Gnva Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
(Hast thou/you marked the way of the world, wherein wicked men have walked? )

Cvdl Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone:
(Well, thou/you wilt/will keep the old way, it all wicked me have gone:)

Wycl Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
(Whether thou/you coueitist to keep the path of worldis, which wicked men have ofte go?)

Luth Willst du der Welt Lauf achten, darinnen die Ungerechten gegangen sind,
(Willst you the/of_the world Lauf achten, darinnen the Ungerechten gegangen are,)

ClVg Numquid semitam sæculorum custodire cupis, quam calcaverunt viri iniqui,[fn]
(Numquid semitam sæculorum custodire cupis, how calcaverunt viri iniqui, )

22.15 Nunquid semitam? Sicut semita Redemptoris humilitas, ita semita sæculorum superbia. Sæculorum itaque semitam viri iniqui calcant, qui per hujus vitæ desideria in elatione perambulant.

22.15 Nunquid semitam? Sicut semita Redemptoris humilitas, ita semita sæculorum superbia. Sæculorum therefore semitam viri iniqui calcant, who through huyus of_life desideria in elatione perambulant.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הַ⁠אֹ֣רַח עוֹלָ֣ם תִּשְׁמֹ֑ר אֲשֶׁ֖ר דָּרְכ֣וּ מְתֵי־אָֽוֶן

?,path old keep which/who trod men wicked

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. This sentence continues for the next two verses. Alternate translation: “You should not keep the old way that men of iniquity have walked”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

הַ⁠אֹ֣רַח עוֹלָ֣ם תִּשְׁמֹ֑ר אֲשֶׁ֖ר דָּרְכ֣וּ מְתֵי־אָֽוֶן

?,path old keep which/who trod men wicked

Eliphaz is speaking of how people live as if that were a way or path that people were walking along. When Eliphaz asks whether Job will keep that way or stay on that path, he is asking whether Job really wants to live that way himself. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Will you live as men of iniquity have customarily lived” or, as a statement, “You should not live as men of iniquity have customarily lived”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מְתֵי־אָֽוֶן

men wicked

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of iniquity, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “wicked people”

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