JOB 32:9 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Not so many people are wise,
⇔ and older people don’t necessarily understand what’s right.

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 Οὐχ οἱ πολυχρόνιοί εἰσι σοφοὶ, οὐδʼ οἱ γέροντες οἴδασι κρίμα.
(Ouⱪ hoi poluⱪronioi eisi sofoi, oudʼ hoi gerontes oidasi krima. )

UST Humble people can also be wise.
⇔ Younger people can also recognize the right thing to do.

BSB It is not only the old [fn] who are wise,
⇔ or the elderly who understand justice.

OEB It is not the old men that are wise,
⇔ Nor the aged that understand truth;

WEBBE It is not the great who are wise,
⇔ nor the aged who understand justice.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET It is not the aged who are wise,
⇔ nor old men who understand what is right.

LSV The multitude are not wise,
Nor do the aged understand judgment.

FBV It is not the old who are wise, or the elderly who know what is right.

T4T It is not people becoming old that enables them to be wise;
⇔ not all old people understand what is right.

LEB • It is not[fn] who are wise, or[fn] it is not the elders who understand justice.

32:6 Literally “many in days”

32:6 Hebrew “and”

BBE It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged that discern judgment.

ASV It is not the great that are wise,
⇔ Nor the aged that understand justice.

DRA They that are aged are not the wise men, neither do the ancients understand judgment.

YLT The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

Drby It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

RV It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged that understand judgment.

Wbstr Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

KJB-1769 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
(Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgement. )

KJB-1611 Great men are not alwayes wise: neither doe the aged vnderstand iudgement.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Bshps Great men are not alway wyse, neither doth euery aged man vnderstande the thing that is lawfull:
(Great men are not alway wyse, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful:)

Gnva Great men are not alway wise, neither doe the aged alway vnderstand iudgement.
(Great men are not alway wise, neither do the aged alway understand judgement. )

Cvdl All men are not wyse, nether doth euery aged man vnderstonde the thinge that is laufull.
(All men are not wyse, neither doth every aged man understood the thing that is lawful.)

Wycl Men of long lijf ben not wise, and elde men vndurstonden not doom.
(Men of long life been not wise, and elde men understonden not doom.)

Luth Die Großen sind nicht die Weisesten, und die Alten verstehen nicht das Recht.
(The Großen are not the Weisesten, and the Alten verstehen not the law.)

ClVg Non sunt longævi sapientes, nec senes intelligunt judicium.
(Non are longævi sapientes, but_not senes intelligunt yudicium. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

לֹֽא־רַבִּ֥ים יֶחְכָּ֑מוּ וּ֝⁠זְקֵנִ֗ים יָבִ֥ינוּ מִשְׁפָּֽט

not abundant wise and,aged understand what_is_right

Elihu means implicitly that it is not the great or the aged alone who are wise and understand justice. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “It is not only the great who are wise, and it is not the aged alone who understand justice”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj

רַבִּ֥ים & וּ֝⁠זְקֵנִ֗ים

abundant & and,aged

Elihu is using the adjectives great and aged as nouns to mean certain kinds of people. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate these words with equivalent phrases. Alternate translation: “Great people … and aged people”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מִשְׁפָּֽט

what_is_right

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of justice, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “what is just”

Parallel JOB 32:9