JOB 36:25 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) All humankind has seen it.
⇔ ≈People look at it from a distance.

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 Πᾶς ἄνθρωπος εἶδεν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, ὅσοι τιτρωσκόμενοί εἰσι βροτοί.
(Pas anthrōpos eiden en heautōi, hosoi titrōskomenoi eisi brotoi. )

UST Everyone has seen what God has done,
⇔ but even so, people only understand it a little.

OEB All men look with pleasure thereon,
⇔ Though man seeth it but from afar.

WEBBE All men have looked on it.
⇔ Man sees it afar off.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET All humanity has seen it;
⇔ people gaze on it from afar.

LSV All men have looked on it,
Man looks attentively from afar.

FBV Everyone has seen God's creation, though only from a distance.[fn]

36:25 Later God asks Job if he was there during creation.

T4T Everyone has seen what he has done,
⇔ but sometimes we can see it only from far away.

LEB • everyone watches from afar.

BBE All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.

ASV All men have looked thereon;
⇔ Man beholdeth it afar off.

DRA All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.

YLT All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

Drby All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.

RV All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.

Wbstr Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

KJB-1769 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

KJB-1611 Euery man may see it, man may behold it afarre off.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps All men see it, yea men do beholde it a farre of.
(All men see it, yea men do behold it afar off.)

Gnva All men see it, and men beholde it afarre off.
(All men see it, and men behold it afar off. )

Cvdl yee wondre at him, and yet they se him but afarre of.
(yee wondre at him, and yet they see him but afar off.)

Wycl Alle men seen God; ech man biholdith afer.
(All men seen God; each man biholdith afer.)

Luth Denn alle Menschen sehen das, die Leute schauen‘s von ferne.
(Because all Menschen see das, the Leute schauen‘s from ferne.)

ClVg Omnes homines vident eum: unusquisque intuetur procul.
(All_of_them homines vident him: unusquisque intuetur procul. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

כָּל־אָדָ֥ם חָֽזוּ־ב֑⁠וֹ אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ יַבִּ֥יט מֵ⁠רָחֽוֹק

all/each/any/every humankind seen in=him/it ʼEnōsh watches from,afar

Elihu could possibly be indicating the storm that is gathering. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “Everyone can see the storm clouds that God is forming in the sky, even though they are so high up and far away”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

כָּל־אָדָ֥ם & אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ יַבִּ֥יט

all/each/any/every humankind & ʼEnōsh watches

Here again the masculine term man has a generic sense that includes both men and women. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could use language in your translation that is clearly inclusive of both men and women. Alternate translation: “Each person … people have regarded”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ יַבִּ֥יט מֵ⁠רָחֽוֹק

ʼEnōsh watches from,afar

Elihu is speaking as if people have literally seen God’s work from afar, that is, from a distance. He probably means that people only see and understand God’s work indistinctly and without recognizing many specific details. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “however, people only understand God’s work indistinctly”

Note 4 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast

אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ יַבִּ֥יט

ʼEnōsh watches

Elihu is implying a slight contrast: While people can see God’s work, they can only see it from afar. In your translation, you may wish to indicate this contrast in a way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “however, man has only regarded”

Parallel JOB 36:25