JOB 36:29 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Καὶ ἐὰν συνῇ ἐπεκτάσεις νεφέλης, ἰσότητα σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ,
(Kai ean sunaʸ epektaseis nefelaʸs, isotaʸta skaʸnaʸs autou, )

BrTr And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of his tabernacle;

ULT Indeed, if one will understand the spread of the cloud,
⇔ the thunder from his hut?

UST No one can really understand how the clouds spread across the sky
⇔ or how it thunders in the sky where God lives.

BSB Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out,
⇔ how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

OEB Who can tell how the clouds are spread out,
⇔ How He thunders from His pavilion?

WEBBE Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds
⇔ and the thunderings of his pavilion?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Who can understand the spreading of the clouds,
⇔ the thunderings of his pavilion?

LSV Indeed, do [any] understand
The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?

FBV Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out, or how thunder roars from where he lives?[fn]

36:29 Literally, “the thunderings of his pavilion.”

T4T No one can [RHQ] understand how the clouds move across the sky
⇔ or how it thunders in the sky where God lives.

LEB • [fn] the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place?

36:1 Literally “if he can understand”

BBE And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?

ASV Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,
⇔ The thunderings of his pavilion?

DRA If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

YLT Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

Drby But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?

RV Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Wbstr Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

KJB-1769 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

KJB-1611 Also can any vnderstand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Who can consider the spreadinges out of his cloudes, the coueringes of his tabernacle?
(Who can consider the spreadinges out of his clouds, the coveringes of his tabernacle?)

Gnva Who can know the diuisions of ye clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle?
(Who can know the diuisions of ye/you_all clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle? )

Cvdl He can sprede out the cloudes (a couerynge off his tabernacle)
(He can spread out the clouds (a covering off his tabernacle))

Wycl If he wole stretche forthe cloudis as his tente,
(If he will stretche forth clouds as his tente,)

Luth Wenn er vornimmt, die Wolken auszubreiten, wie sein hoch Gezelt,
(When he vornimmt, the Wolken auszubreiten, like his hoch Gezelt,)

ClVg Si voluerit extendere nubes quasi tentorium suum,
(When/But_if voluerit extendere clouds as_if tentorium his_own, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽ⁠וֹ

if understand spreading clouds thundering pavilion,his

Elihu is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “no one can understand how God makes clouds spread or how he makes thunder come from his hut!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

סֻכָּתֽ⁠וֹ

pavilion,his

Elihu is speaking as if God literally lived in a hut in the sky. (He is using the same term that Job used in 27:18 to describe a guard booth.) If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “from his dwelling place in the sky”

Parallel JOB 36:29