JOB 38:14 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) After dawn, the earth takes shape like clay when a seal is pressed into it,
⇔ and its features stand out like folds in a cloak.

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 σὺ λαβὼν γῆν πηλὸν, ἔπλασας ζῶον, καὶ λαλητὸν αὐτὸν ἔθου ἐπὶ γῆς;
(Aʸ su labōn gaʸn paʸlon, eplasas zōon, kai lalaʸton auton ethou epi gaʸs; )

BrTr Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

ULT It is changed like clay under a seal,
⇔ and they stand out like a garment.

UST In the light of day, people can see the hills and valleys on earth clearly.
⇔ The earth seems to take shape the way clay takes shape when people press a seal onto it
⇔ or the way folds form in clothing.

BSB The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
⇔ its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

OEB It is changed as clay under the seal,
⇔ And the world stands forth (bright) as a garment.

WEBBE It is changed as clay under the seal,
⇔ and presented as a garment.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
⇔ its features are dyed like a garment.

LSV It turns itself as clay of a seal
And they station themselves as clothed.

FBV The earth is changed like clay under a seal;[fn] its features stand out like a crumpled garment.

38:14 Like a seal impressing an image on a smooth piece of clay.

T4T When it becomes light after the dawn,
⇔ the hills and the valleys become clear like the folds in a cloth.

LEB • under a seal, and they appear like a garment.

BBE It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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JPS It is changed as clay under the seal; and they stand as a garment.

ASV It is changed as clay under the seal;
⇔ And all things stand forth as a garment:

DRA The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:

YLT It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

Drby It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment:

RV It is changed as clay under the seal; and all things stand forth as a garment:

Wbstr It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

KJB-1769 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

KJB-1611 It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment.
(They are fashioned as is the clay with the seal, and all stand up as a garment.)

Gnva It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.
(It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand up as a garment. )

Cvdl Their tokes & weapes hast thou turned like claye, & set the vp agayne as the chaunginge of a garment.
(Their tokes and weapes hast thou/you turned like clay, and set the up again as the changing of a garment.)

Wycl A seeling schal be restorid as cley, and it schal stonde as a cloth.
(A seeling shall be restorid as clay, and it shall stand as a cloth.)

Luth Das Siegel wird sich wandeln wie Leimen, und sie stehen wie ein Kleid.
(The Siegel becomes itself/yourself/themselves wandeln like Leimen, and they/she/them stehen like a Kleid.)

ClVg Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum:
(Restituetur as lutum signaculum, and stabit like vestimentum: )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ & וְ֝⁠יִֽתְיַצְּב֗וּ

changed & and,stand_out

The pronoun it refers to the earth and the pronoun they refers to the features of the earth. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “The earth is changed … and its features stand out”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ כְּ⁠חֹ֣מֶר חוֹתָ֑ם

changed like,clay seal

The point of this comparison is that just as plain clay takes on distinct features when it is pressed under a seal, so the features of the earth become distinct in the light of day. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: “Its features change from indistinct to distinct, just as clay takes on distinct features when it is pressed under a seal”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ

changed

Yahweh means implicitly that this happens at dawn. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “When the light of day shines on it, it is changed”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ

changed

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “The light of day changes it”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

כְּמ֣וֹ לְבֽוּשׁ

like garment

Yahweh is using the term garment by association to mean the folds of a garment. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “like the folds of a garment”

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