JOB 38:27 Parallel Verse View

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38:27 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in 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 τοῦ χορτάσαι ἄβατον καὶ ἀοίκητον, καὶ τοῦ ἐκβλαστῆσαι ἔξοδον χλόης;
(tou ⱪortasai abaton kai aoikaʸton, kai tou ekblastaʸsai exodon ⱪloaʸs; )

ULT to satisfy the waste and the desolation,
⇔ and to cause the shoot of the grass to sprout?

UST Would you be able to send rain there to water those barren areas where nothing has grown,
⇔ so that grass would begin to grow again?

BSB to satisfy the parched wasteland
⇔ and make it sprout with tender grass?

OEB Thus gladdening the wilderness waste,
⇔ And the thirsty land clothing with verdure?

WEBBE to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
⇔ to cause the tender grass to grow?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,
⇔ and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

LSV To satisfy a desolate and ruined place,
And to cause to shoot up
The produce of the tender grass?

FBV to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?

T4T Who sends the rain that gives moisture/water to areas where nothing has grown,
⇔ with the result that grass begins to grow again?

LEB • and to cause the ground to put forth the rising of grass?

BBE To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

ASV To satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
⇔ And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

DRA That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

YLT To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

Drby To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?

RV To satisfy the waste and desolate ground; and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Wbstr To satisfy the desolate and waste ground ; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

KJB-1769 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

KJB-1611 To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth.
(To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the budde of the herb to spring forth.)

Gnva To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
(To fulfil the wild and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herb to spring forth? )

Cvdl to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, & in the wildernes where no ma remayneth?
(to make the grass growe in places where no body dwells, and in the wilderness where no man remayneth?)

Wycl That it schulde fille a lond with out weie and desolat, and schulde brynge forth greene eerbis?
(That it should fill a land with out way and desolat, and should bring forth green eerbis?)

Luth daß er füllet die Einöden und Wildnis und macht, daß Gras wächset?
(daß he füllet the Einöden and Wildnis and macht, that Gras wächset?)

ClVg ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes?
(ut impleret inviam and desolatam, and produceret herbas virentes? )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

לְ⁠הַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ

to,satisfy

Yahweh is speaking of an arid region as if it were a living thing that was thirsty and that rain could satisfy. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to water”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

שֹׁ֭אָה וּ⁠מְשֹׁאָ֑ה

waste and,wasteland

The terms waste and desolation mean similar things. Yahweh is using the two terms together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: “the arid desert”

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