JOB 38:12 Parallel Verse View

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38:12 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.

38:12 Variant note: ידעתה שחר: (x-qere) ’יִדַּ֖עְתָּה’: lemma_3045 morph_HVpp2ms id_18xRA יִדַּ֖עְתָּה ’הַ/שַּׁ֣חַר’: lemma_d/7837 morph_HTd/Ncmsa id_18CvE הַ/שַּׁ֣חַר

38:12 Note: We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.

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 Ἢ ἐπὶ σοῦ συντέταχα φέγγος πρωϊνόν; Ἑωσφόρος δὲ ἶδε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τάξιν,
(Aʸ epi sou suntetaⱪa fengos prōinon; Heōsforos de ide taʸn heautou taxin, )

BrTr Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;

ULT From your days, have you commanded the morning?
⇔ Have you caused the dawn to know its place,

UST Job, have you ever commanded a day to begin?
⇔ Have you told the sun where it needed to rise on a certain day?

BSB ⇔ In your days, have you commanded the morning
⇔ or assigned the dawn its place,

OEB Didst thou ever give charge to the morning,
⇔ Or appoint to the day-star her place,

WEBBE ⇔ “Have you commanded the morning in your days,
⇔ and caused the dawn to know its place,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,
⇔ or made the dawn know its place,

LSV Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?

FBV During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?

T4T ⇔ “Job, have you ever commanded the morning to begin?
⇔ Have you ever told the dawn to start a new day?

LEB • [fn] commanded the morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

38:1 Literally “from your days”

BBE Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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JPS Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;

ASV ⇔ Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,
⇔ And caused the dayspring to know its place;

DRA Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

YLT Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

Drby Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

RV Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;

Wbstr Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know its place;

KJB-1769 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
(Hast thou/you commanded the morning since thy/your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; )

KJB-1611 Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? and caused the day-spring to know his place,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,
(Hast thou/you give the morning his charge since thy/your days, and showed the day spring his place,)

Gnva Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
(Hast thou/you commanded the morning since thy/your days? hast thou/you caused the morning to know his place, )

Cvdl Hast thou geue the mornynge his charge (as soone as thou wast borne) and shewed the dayespringe his place,
(Hast thou/you give the morning his charge (as soon as thou/you wast borne) and showed the dayspringe his place,)

Wycl Whethir aftir thi birthe thou comaundist to the bigynnyng of dai, and schewidist to the morewtid his place?
(Whethir after thy/your birth thou/you comaundist to the beginning of day, and showedist to the morning his place?)

Luth Hast du bei deiner Zeit dem Morgen geboten und der Morgenröte ihren Ort gezeiget,
(Hast you at deiner time to_him Morgen offered and the/of_the Morgenröte your place gezeiget,)

ClVg Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum?
(Numquid after ortum your præcepisti diluculo, and ostendisti with_goldræ place suum? )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

הְֽ֭⁠מִ⁠יָּמֶי⁠ךָ

?,in,life,your

Yahweh is using the term days to refer to a specific time, the lifetime of Job. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Ever in your lifetime”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

צִוִּ֣יתָ בֹּ֑קֶר

commanded morning

Yahweh is speaking of the morning as if it were a living thing that Job could have commanded. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “have you made the day begin”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

ידעתה שחר מְקֹמֽ⁠וֹ

ידעתה caused_~_toknow place,its

Yahweh is speaking of the dawn as if it were a living thing whose place Job could have shown to it. Yahweh is referring to the way that the sun rises in a slightly different place each day, making the dawn appear in a slightly different location. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Have you made the sun rise in the right place”

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