JOB 31:20 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) if the poor haven’t blessed me,
⇔ or they haven’t warmed themselves with wool from my sheep,

31:20 Variant note: חלצ/ו: (x-qere) ’חֲלָצָ֑י/ו’: lemma_2504 n_1 morph_HNcbdc/Sp3ms id_18Bjn חֲלָצָ֑י/ו

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
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 Ἀδύνατοι δὲ εἰ μὴ εὐλόγησάν με, ἀπὸ δὲ κουρᾶς ἀμνῶν μοῦ ἐθερμάνθησαν οἱ ὦμοι αὐτῶν·
(Adunatoi de ei maʸ eulogaʸsan me, apo de kouras amnōn mou ethermanthaʸsan hoi ōmoi autōn; )

BrTr and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

ULT if his loins have not blessed me
⇔ and he has not warmed himself from the wool of my sheep,

UST I gave them warm clothes that my servants had woven from the wool of my sheep.
⇔ The poor people thanked me for helping them.

BSB if his heart has not blessed me [fn]
⇔ for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

OEB But I warmed him with fleece from my lambs,
⇔ And his loins gave me their blessing.

WEBBE if his heart hasn’t blessed me,
⇔ if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

WMBB (Same as above)

NET whose heart did not bless me
⇔ as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

LSV If his loins have not blessed me,
And from the fleece of my sheep
He does not warm himself,

FBV they always thanked me for the wool clothing that kept them warm.

T4T and they were not able to become warm from clothes made from the wool of my sheep
⇔ with the result that they thanked me for giving them clothes,

LEB • or[fn] by means of my sheep’s fleece he has warmed himself,

31:? Hebrew “and”

BBE If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

ASV If his loins have not blessed me,
⇔ And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

DRA If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:

YLT If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

Drby If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

RV If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Wbstr If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

KJB-1769 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

KJB-1611 If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
(If his loins have not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep:)

Gnva If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,
(If his loins have not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep, )

Cvdl whose sydes thanked me not, because he was warmed wt ye woll of my shepe?
(whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with ye/you_all woll of my shepe?)

Wycl if hise sidis blessiden not me, and was not maad hoot of the fleeces of my scheep;
(if his sidis blessedn not me, and was not made hoot of the fleeces of my scheep;)

Luth Haben mich nicht gesegnet seine Seiten, da er von den Fellen meiner Lämmer erwärmet ward?
(Haben me not gesegnet his Seiten, there he from the Fellen my Lämmer erwärmet ward?)

ClVg si non benedixerunt mihi latera ejus, et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est;
(si not/no benedixerunt to_me latera his, and about velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est; )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / events

אִם־לֹ֣א בֵרֲכ֣וּ⁠נִי חֲלָצָ֑יו וּ⁠מִ⁠גֵּ֥ז כְּ֝בָשַׂ⁠י יִתְחַמָּֽם

if not blessed,me (Some words not found in UHB: if not blessed,me loins,his and,with,fleece sheep,my warmed )

Since this representative needy person may have first warmed himself with a garment that Job provided and then blessed Job for this practical help, it may be more natural to reverse the order of these clauses. Alternate translation: “if he has not warmed himself from the wool of my sheep and blessed me for my kindness”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

אִם־לֹ֣א בֵרֲכ֣וּ⁠נִי חֲלָצָ֑יו

if not blessed,me (Some words not found in UHB: if not blessed,me loins,his and,with,fleece sheep,my warmed )

Job is using one part of this representative needy person, his loins, to mean all of him in the act of blessing Job. Job probably chooses the waist area to symbolize this person because that is the area that a person who needed clothing would cover first. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “if he has not blessed me”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וּ⁠מִ⁠גֵּ֥ז כְּ֝בָשַׂ⁠י

and,with,fleece sheep,my

Job is using this phrase by association to mean a garment that someone in his household would have woven from wool that his sheep had produced. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and … with a warm woolen garment that I provided”

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