JOB 37:22 Parallel Verse View

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Part a: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=unclear Importance=normal
Part b: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, 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 Ἀπὸ Βοῤῥᾶ νέφη χρυσαυγοῦντα, ἐπὶ τούτοις μεγάλη ἡ δόξα καὶ τιμὴ παντοκράτορος,
(Apo Boɽɽa nefaʸ ⱪrusaugounta, epi toutois megalaʸ haʸ doxa kai timaʸ pantokratoros, )

BrTr From the north come the clouds shining like gold: in these great are the glory and honour of the Almighty;

UST When God appears, he has glittering light all around him.
⇔ His glory is so bright that it makes us afraid.
⇔ So if we cannot even look at the sun, how could we look at God?

BSB Out of the north He comes in golden splendor;
⇔ awesome majesty surrounds Him.

OEB And radiance comes out of the north;
⇔ But the splendour of God – how terrible!

WEBBE Out of the north comes golden splendour.
⇔ With God is awesome majesty.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET From the north he comes in golden splendor;
⇔ around God is awesome majesty.

LSV It comes from the golden north,
Fearful splendor [is] beside God.

FBV Out of the north God comes shining like gold, surrounded in awesome majesty.

T4T God comes out of the north with a light that shines like gold;
⇔ his glory causes us to be afraid.

LEB • the north comes gold— awesome majesty is around God.

BBE A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.

ASV Out of the north cometh golden splendor:
⇔ God hath upon him terrible majesty.

DRA Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.

YLT From the golden north it cometh, Beside God [is] fearful honour.

Drby From the north cometh gold; with [fn]God is terrible majesty.

37.22 Eloah

RV Out of the north cometh golden splendour: God hath upon him terrible majesty.

Wbstr Fair weather cometh from the north: with God is terrible majesty.

KJB-1769 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.[fn]
(Fair weather cometh/comes out of the north: with God is terrible majesty. )

37.22 Fair…: Heb. Gold

KJB-1611 [fn]Faire weather commeth out of the North: with God is terrible maiestie.
(Faire weather cometh/comes out of the North: with God is terrible majesty.)

37:22 Heb. gold

Bshps The faire weather commeth out of the north, the prayse thereof is to God who is terrible.
(The fair weather cometh/comes out of the north, the praise thereof is to God who is terrible.)

Gnva The brightnesse commeth out of the North: the praise thereof is to God, which is terrible.
(The brightness cometh/comes out of the North: the praise thereof is to God, which is terrible. )

Cvdl Golde is brought out of the north, but the prayse and honoure off Gods feare commeth fro God himself.
(Golde is brought out of the north, but the praise and honoure off Gods fear cometh/comes from God himself.)

Wyc Gold schal come fro the north, and ferdful preisyng of God.
(Gold shall come from the north, and ferdful preisyng of God.)

Luth Von Mitternacht kommt Gold zu Lob vor dem schrecklichen GOtt.
(Von Mitternacht comes Gold to Lob before/in_front_of to_him schrecklichen God.)

ClVg Ab aquilone aurum venit, et ad Deum formidolosa laudatio.
(Ab aquilone aurum venit, and to God formidolosa laudatio. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

מִ֭⁠צָּפוֹן

out_of,north

Elihu assumes that Job will understand that by the north he means the abode of God. In this culture, people believed that there was a divine residence in the northern regions of the earth. You could translate this with a general expression or with a term that your readers would recognize as describing the abode of God. Alternate translation: “From God’s abode” or “From heaven”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

זָהָ֣ב יֶֽאֱתֶ֑ה

golden comes

Elihu is using the term gold by association to mean golden splendor, that is, the glory of God. He is actually speaking of God coming in glory. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “God comes in his glory”

Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast

עַל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נ֣וֹרָא הֽוֹד

on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in god awesome majesty

Elihu is drawing an implicit contrast between the brightness of the sun, which people cannot look at directly, and the infinitely greater brightness of God’s glory. You may wish to make this contrast explicit in your translation. The UST models one way to do that.

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