JOB 37:19 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Teach us what we should say to him.
⇔ We can’t get organised here in the darkness.

37:19 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

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 Διατὶ δίδαξόν με, τί ἐροῦμεν αὐτῷ; καὶ παυσώμεθα πολλὰ λέγοντες.
(Diati didaxon me, ti eroumen autōi; kai pausōmetha polla legontes. )

BrTr Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

ULT Teach us what we shall say to him;
⇔ we can not array, from the face of darkness.

UST I doubt that you could tell us what to say to God.
⇔ People do not know enough to be able to defend themselves if they spoke with God.

BSB ⇔ Teach us what we should say to Him;
⇔ we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.

OEB How then shall we speak to Him? Tell me;
⇔ For helpless are we in our darkness.

WEBBE Teach us what we will tell him,
⇔ for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Tell us what we should say to him.
⇔ We cannot prepare a case
⇔ because of the darkness.

LSV Let us know what we say to Him,
We do not set in array because of darkness.

FBV So why don't you teach us what to tell God? We cannot make our case because we are in the dark![fn]

37:19 Once again Elihu is being ironic.

T4T ⇔ “Job, tell us(exc) what we should say to God;
⇔ we do not know anything [IDM].
⇔ As a result, we do not know what to say to him to defend ourselves.

LEB • we cannot draw up our case because of the presence of darkness.

BBE Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

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JPS Teach us what we shall say unto Him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

ASV Teach us what we shall say unto him;
⇔ For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

DRA Shew us what we may say to him: for we are wrapped up in darkness.

YLT Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

Drby Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order [our words] by reason of darkness.

RV Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Wbstr Teach us what we shall say to him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

KJB-1769 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

KJB-1611 Teach vs what we shall say vnto him; for we cannot order our speach by reason of darknes.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Bshps Teache vs what we shall saye vnto him: for we are vnmeete to frame our talke because of darkenesse.
(Teache us what we shall say unto him: for we are unmeete to frame our talk because of darkness.)

Gnva Tell vs what we shall say vnto him: for we can not dispose our matter because of darknes.
(Tell us what we shall say unto him: for we cannot dispose our matter because of darkness. )

Cvdl Teach vs what we shal saye vnto hi, for we are vnmete because of darcknes.
(Teach us what we shall say unto hi, for we are unmete because of darkness.)

Wycl Schewe thou to vs, what we schulen seie to hym; for we ben wlappid in derknessis.
(Schewe thou/you to us, what we should say to him; for we been wlappid in darkness.)

Luth Zeige uns, was wir ihm sagen sollen; denn wir werden nicht dahin reichen vor Finsternis.
(Zeige uns, what/which we/us him say sollen; because we/us become not gone reichen before/in_front_of darkness.)

ClVg Ostende nobis quid dicamus illi: nos quippe involvimur tenebris.
(Ostende us quid dicamus illi: we quippe involvimur darkness. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive

ה֭וֹדִיעֵ⁠נוּ מַה־נֹּ֣אמַר ל֑⁠וֹ לֹ֥א־נַ֝עֲרֹ֗ךְ מִ⁠פְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ

teach,us what? say to=him/it not draw_up from=face/in_front_of darkness

Elihu is using the term us to refer to himself and the others who are listening but not to Job, whom he is addressing, so use the exclusive form of “us” in your translation if your language marks that distinction. Elihu seems to be using the term we to refer to Job as well as to himself and the others who are listening, since he is describing a general human condition. It may be natural in your language to use the inclusive form of “we” in this second instance if your language marks that distinction.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / irony

ה֭וֹדִיעֵ⁠נוּ מַה־נֹּ֣אמַר ל֑⁠וֹ

teach,us what? say to=him/it

For emphasis, Elihu is saying the opposite of what he means. If a speaker of your language would not do this, in your translation you could indicate what Elihu actually means. Alternate translation: “I do not believe that you would be able to teach us what we should say to him”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לֹ֥א־נַ֝עֲרֹ֗ךְ

not draw_up

See how you translated the term “array” in 33:5. Alternate translation: “we cannot marshal our arguments” or “we cannot organize what we want to say”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מִ⁠פְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ

from=face/in_front_of darkness

Here the word face represents the presence of a person or thing by association with the way people can see the face of someone who is present. Alternate translation: “because of the darkness that is present”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

מִ⁠פְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ

from=face/in_front_of darkness

Elihu is referring to the limitations of human understanding. He is speaking as if people were in darkness and so could not see or distinguish very much. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “because of the limitations of our human understanding”

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