JOB 39:16 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) She’s harsh on her young as if they’re not hers,
⇔ ≈without worrying that her egg-laying might all be wasted.

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 Ἀπεσκλήρυνε τὰ τέκνα ἑαυτῆς, ὥστε μὴ ἑαυτήν· εἰς κενὸν ἐκοπίασεν ἄνευ φόβου.
(Apesklaʸrune ta tekna heautaʸs, hōste maʸ heautaʸn; eis kenon ekopiasen aneu fobou. )

BrTr She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear.

ULT It treats its sons harshly, as if not to it;
⇔ vain is its labor, without fear,

UST Ostriches do not care well for their chicks.
⇔ They act as if the chicks do not belong to them.
⇔ They do not seem to be concerned that their chicks might die
⇔ and they would have laid their eggs for nothing.

BSB She treats her young harshly, as if not her own,
⇔ with no concern that her labor was in vain.

OEB Her young she treats harshly, as strangers,
⇔ Unmoved though her toil be in vain.

WEBBE She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.
⇔ Though her labour is in vain, she is without fear,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET She is harsh with her young,
⇔ as if they were not hers;
⇔ she is unconcerned
⇔ about the uselessness of her labor.

LSV It has hardened her young ones without her,
Her labor [is] in vain, without fear.

FBV She is tough towards her young, acting as if they didn't belong to her. She doesn't care that all her work was for nothing.

T4T Ostriches act cruelly towards their chicks;
⇔ they act as though the chicks belonged to some other ostrich.
⇔ They are not concerned if their chicks die,
⇔ and so the laying of the eggs was in vain.

LEB • if they were not its own, as if without fear that its labor were in vain,

BBE She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

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JPS She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers; though her labour be in vain, she is without fear;

ASV She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers:
⇔ Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear;

DRA She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.

YLT Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.

Drby She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.

RV She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers: though her labour be in vain, she is without fear;

Wbstr She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without fear;

KJB-1769 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

KJB-1611 She is hardened against her yong ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vaine without feare.
(She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vaine without feare.)

Bshps So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.
(So hard is she unto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.)

Gnva Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
(Hast thou/you given the pleasant wings unto the peacockes? or winges and feathers unto the ostriche? )

Cvdl So harde is he vnto his yong ones, as though they were not his, and laboureth in vayne without eny feare.
(So hard is he unto his young ones, as though they were not his, and laboureth in vayne without any feare.)

Wyc He is maad hard to hise briddis, as if thei ben not hise; he traueilide in veyn, while no drede constreynede.
(He is made hard to his birds, as if they been not hise; he traueilide in veyn, while no dread constrained.)

Luth Er wird so hart gegen seine Jungen, als wären sie nicht sein, achtet es nicht, daß er umsonst arbeitet.
(He becomes so hart gegen his Yungen, als would_be they/she/them not sein, achtet it not, that he umsonst works.)

ClVg Duratur ad filios suos, quasi non sint sui: frustra laboravit, nullo timore cogente.
(Duratur to filios suos, as_if not/no sint sui: frustra laboravit, nullo timore cogente. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

בָּנֶ֣י⁠הָ

her/its=sons/descendants

Here the masculine term sons has a generic sense that would include both male and female young ostriches. Some languages may have a general term for the offspring of birds that would convey this sense. Other languages may use both the masculine and feminine forms of such a term. Alternate translation: “its chicks”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

לְ⁠רִ֖יק יְגִיעָ֣⁠הּ בְּלִי־פָֽחַד

in,vain labor,her no fear

Yahweh is speaking of an ostrich as if it could consciously feel fear that the labor it had expended to have offspring might be in vain, that is, the offspring might die, if it did not take better care of them. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “it does not carefully protect their lives”

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