JOB 33:14 Parallel Verse View

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

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).

BrLXX Ἐν γὰρ τῷ ἅπαξ λαλήσαι ὁ Κύριος, ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ.
(En gar tōi hapax lalaʸsai ho Kurios, en de tōi deuterōi. )

UST God actually does speak to people in various ways.
⇔ People just do not realize how he is doing that.

OEB For God hath one manner of speech,
⇔ Yea two – and He doth not revoke it.

WEBBE For God speaks once,
⇔ yes twice, though man pays no attention.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET “For God speaks, the first time in one way,
⇔ the second time in another,
⇔ though a person does not perceive it.

LSV For once God speaks, and twice (he does not behold it),

FBV God speaks over and over again,[fn] but people don't notice.

33:14 Literally, “once, and twice,” but this is number parallelism which indicates an increasing number.

T4T God does speak to us in various ways,
⇔ but we do not pay any attention to what he says.

LEB • way, even[fn] in two,[fn] yet someone does not perceive it.

33:? Hebrew “and”

33:? Or “time and again” (NJPS, HCSB)

BBE For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS For God speaketh in one way, yea in two, though man perceiveth it not.

ASV For God speaketh once,
⇔ Yea twice, though man regardeth it not.

DRA God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

YLT For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)

Drby For [fn]God speaketh once, and twice, — [and man] perceiveth it not —

33.14 El

RV For God speaketh once, yea twice, though man regardeth it not.

Wbstr For God speaketh once, yes twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

KJB-1769 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
(For God speaketh/speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. )

KJB-1611 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiueth it not.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For God speaketh once or twise, and yet man vnderstandeth it not.
(For God speaketh/speaks once or twice, and yet man understandth it not.)

Gnva For God speaketh once or twise, and one seeth it not.
(For God speaketh/speaks once or twice, and one seeth it not. )

Cvdl For whe God doth once commaunde a thinge, there shulde no man be curious, to search whether it be right.
(For when God doth once command a thing, there should no man be curious, to search whether it be right.)

Wycl God spekith onys, and the secounde tyme he rehersith not the same thing.
(God speaketh/speaks once, and the second time he rehersith not the same thing.)

Luth Denn wenn GOtt einmal etwas beschließt, so bedenket er‘s nicht erst her nach.
(Because when God einmal etwas beschließt, so bedenket er‘s not erst her after.)

ClVg Semel loquitur Deus, et secundo idipsum non repetit.
(Semel loquitur God, and secondly idipsum not/no repetit. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-poetry

בְ⁠אַחַ֥ת יְדַבֶּר־אֵ֑ל וּ֝⁠בִ⁠שְׁתַּ֗יִם

in/on/at/with,one speaks god and,in/on/at/with,two

As Eliphaz did in 5:19, here Elihu is naming a number that should be sufficient to illustrate his point and then increasing that number by one for emphasis. This was a common device in Hebrew poetry. If a speaker of your language would not do this, in your translation you could express the emphasis another way. Alternate translation: “God indeed speaks to people”

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast

לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽ⁠נָּה

not perceive,it

Elihu is drawing an implicit contrast between God’s genuine speaking and people’s failure to perceive it. You may wish to indicate this contrast explicitly in your translation. Alternate translation: “the only problem is, people do not perceive it”

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