JOB 34:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Let’s choose justice for ourselves.
⇔ ≈Let’s discern among ourselves what is good.

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 Κρίσιν ἑλώμεθα ἑαυτοῖς, γνῶμεν ἀναμέσον ἑαυτῶν, ὅ, τι καλόν.
(Krisin helōmetha heautois, gnōmen anameson heautōn, ho, ti kalon. )

BrTr Let us choose judgment to ourselves: let us know among ourselves what is right.

ULT Let us choose justice for ourselves;
⇔ let us know among ourselves what is good.

UST I would like all of us to decide together who is right, Job or his friends.
⇔ I would like us to find out together what is a good way to understand his situation.

BSB Let us choose for ourselves what is right;
⇔ let us learn together what is good.

OEB Let us choose for ourselves what is good.
⇔ Recognise by ourselves what is good.

WEBBE Let us choose for us that which is right.
⇔ Let us know amongst ourselves what is good.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right;
⇔ let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

LSV Let us choose judgment for ourselves,
Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

FBV Let us discern for ourselves what is right: let us decide among ourselves what is good.

T4T We need to decide who is saying what is right
⇔ and to determine among ourselves what is good/best.

LEB • let us determine among ourselves what is good—

BBE Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.

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JPS Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

ASV Let us choose for us that which is right:
⇔ Let us know among ourselves what is good.

DRA Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.

YLT Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

Drby Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good!

RV Let us choose for us that which is right: let us know among ourselves what is good.

Wbstr Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

KJB-1769 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
(Let us choose to us judgement: let us know among ourselves what is good. )

KJB-1611 Let vs chuse to vs iudgement: let vs know among our selues what is good.
(Let us choose to us judgement: let us know among our selves what is good.)

Bshps As for iudgement, let vs seke it out among our selues, that we may knowe what is good.
(As for judgement, let us seek it out among our selves, that we may know what is good.)

Gnva Let vs seeke iudgement among vs, and let vs knowe among our selues what is good.
(Let us seek judgement among us, and let us know among our selves what is good. )

Cvdl As for the iudgmet, let vs seke it out amonge or selues, yt we maye knowe what is right.
(As for the iudgmet, let us seek it out among or selves, it we may know what is right.)

Wycl Chese we doom to vs; and se we among vs, what is the betere.
(Choose we doom to us; and see we among us, what is the betere.)

Luth Laßt uns ein Urteil erwählen, daß wir erkennen unter uns, was gut sei.
(Laßt us/to_us/ourselves a Urteil erwählen, that we/us erkennen under uns, what/which good sei.)

ClVg Judicium eligamus nobis, et inter nos videamus quid sit melius.
(Yudicium eligamus nobis, and between we videamus quid let_it_be melius. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive

מִשְׁפָּ֥ט נִבְחֲרָה־לָּ֑⁠נוּ נֵדְעָ֖ה בֵינֵ֣י⁠נוּ מַה־טּֽוֹב

what_is_right choose to/for=ourselves determine among,ourselves what? good

Elihu is using the pronoun us to refer to himself and to the “wise ones” whom he is addressing, so use the inclusive form of that word if your language marks that distinction. (Even though Job is present and listening, Elihu is not addressing him, so Elihu is still saying us to include everyone whom he actually is addressing.)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מִשְׁפָּ֥ט

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 34:4