JOB 40:5 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

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 Ἅπαξ λελάληκα, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ οὐ προσθήσω.
(Hapax lelalaʸka, epi de tōi deuterōi ou prosthaʸsō.)

ULT I spoke once, but I will not answer,
⇔ and twice, but I will not continue.”

UST I have already said more than I should have said.
⇔ So now I will say nothing more.”

BSB & MSB I have spoken once, but I have no answer—
⇔ twice, but I have nothing to add.”

OEB No OEB JOB 40:5 book available

WEBBE & WMBB I have spoken once, and I will not answer;
⇔ Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

NET I have spoken once, but I cannot answer;
⇔ twice, but I will say no more.”

LSV I have spoken once, and I do not answer,
And twice, and I do not add.”

FBV I have already said far too much and I won't say anything more.”

T4T I have already said more than I should have said,
⇔ so now I will say nothing more.”

LEB • Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;
• even[fn] twice, but[fn] I will not proceed.”

40:1 Hebrew “And”

40:1 Or “and”

BBE I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.

Moff once I have spoken--never again!
⇔ twice--but I will not say one other word!

JPS Once have I spoken, but I will not answer again; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

ASV Once have I spoken, and I will not answer;
⇔ Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

DRA (JOB 39:35) One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.

YLT Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

Drby Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.

RV Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.

SLT Once I sake, and I will not answer: and twice, and I will not add.

Wbstr Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yes, twice; but I will proceed no further.

KJB-1769 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

KJB-1611 Once haue I spoken, but I will not answere: yea twise, but I will proceed no further.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Once haue I spoken, but I wyll saye no more: yea twyse, but I wyl proceede no further.
(Once have I spoken, but I will say no more: yea twice, but I will proceed no further.)

Gnva Decke thy selfe now with maiestie and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with beautie and glory.
(Deck thyself/yourself now with majesty and excellency, and array thyself/yourself with beauty and glory.)

Cvdl Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.
(Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more.)

Wycl (JOB 39:35) Y spak o thing, which thing Y wold, that Y hadde not seid; and Y spak anothir thing, to which Y schal no more adde.
(I spake o thing, which thing I would, that I had not said; and I spake another thing, to which I shall no more add.)

Luth Ich habe einmal geredet, darum will ich nicht mehr antworten; hernach will ich‘s nicht mehr tun.
(I have once talked, therefore will I not more answer(v); afterwards will I...it not more do/put.)

ClVg (JOB 39:35) Unum locutus sum, quod utinam non dixissem: et alterum, quibus ultra non addam.]
(One spoke I_am, that I_wish not/no I_would_have_said: and the_other, to_whom beyond/besides not/no I_will_add.])

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

אַחַ֣ת דִּ֭בַּרְתִּי וְ⁠לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה וּ֝⁠שְׁתַּ֗יִם וְ⁠לֹ֣א אוֹסִֽיף

one(fs) (Some words not found in UHB: one(fs) spoken and=not answer and,two_[times] and=not proceed_~_further )

As Eliphaz did in [5:19](../05/19.md) and as Elihu did in [33:14](../33/14.md) and [33:29](../33/29.md), here Job is naming a number that should be sufficient to illustrate his point and then increasing that number by one for emphasis. This was a common device in Hebrew poetry, but if a speaker of your language would not do this, in your translation you could express the emphasis another way. Alternate translation: [Though I was insisting that you were wrong, I will not say that any longer]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וְ⁠לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה

and=not answer

Job is implicitly using the term answer in the same sense that the narrator used it in [verse 1](../40/01.md) and in [34:1](../34/01.md). That is, Job means that he will not say more things in light of what he has already said and thus, in a sense, in answer to them. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [but I will say nothing further]

Parallel JOB 40:5