JOB 40:7 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Now tuck up your robe like a man going into battle.
⇔ I will question you, and you must answer me.

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 Μὴ, ἀλλὰ ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου, ἐρωτήσω δέ σε, σὺ δέ μοι ἀπόκριναι.
(Maʸ, alla zōsai hōsper anaʸr taʸn osfun sou, erōtaʸsō de se, su de moi apokrinai. )

BrTr Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

ULT “Now gird up your loins like a man!
⇔ I will question you, and you will inform me.

UST “I am going to ask you some more questions, so get ready to answer them directly.

BSB ⇔ “Now brace yourself [fn] like a man;
⇔ I will question you, and you shall inform Me.[fn]

40:7 Hebrew gird up your loins

40:7 Cited in Job 42:4

OEB No OEB JOB 40:7 verse available

WEBBE “Now brace yourself like a man.
⇔ I will question you, and you will answer me.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET “Get ready for a difficult task like a man.
⇔ I will question you and you will inform me!

LSV “Now gird your loins as a man,
I ask you, and you cause Me to know.

FBV “Prepare yourself, be strong, for I am going to question you, and you must answer me.

T4T “I want to ask you some more questions.
⇔ So as men prepare themselves for a difficult task [MET],
⇔ prepare yourself again to answer some more questions.

LEB • [fn] and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

40:1 Literally “Gird up like a man your loins”

BBE Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.

ASV Gird up thy loins now like a man:
⇔ I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

DRA Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place.

YLT Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Drby Gird up now thy loins like a man: I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

RV Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Wbstr Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

KJB-1769 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
(Gird up thy/your loins now like a man: I will demand of thee/you, and declare thou/you unto me. )

KJB-1611 [fn]Gird vp thy loynes now like a man: I will demaund of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
(Gird up thy/your loins now like a man: I will demaund of thee/you, and declare thou/you unto me.)

40:7 Chap.38. 3.

Bshps Girde vp thy loynes now lyke a man: I wyll demaunde of thee, and make thou aunswere.
(Girde up thy/your loins now like a man: I will demaunde of thee/you, and make thou/you aunswere.)

Gnva Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.
(Looke on every one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place. )

Cvdl gyrde vp yi loynes like a man, and tell me the thige that I will axe the.
(gyrde up yi loins like a man, and tell me the thige that I will axe them.)

Wyc Biholde thou alle proude men, and schende thou hem; and al to-breke thou wickid men in her place.
(Behold thou/you all proud men, and schende thou/you hem; and all to-breke thou/you wicked men in her place.)

Luth Gürte wie ein Mann deine Lenden; ich will dich fragen, lehre mich!
(Gürte like a man your Lenden; I will you/yourself fragen, lehre mich!)

ClVg Respice cunctos superbos, et confunde eos, et contere impios in loco suo.
(Respice cunctos superbos, and confunde them, and contere impios in instead his_own. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אֱזָר & חֲלָצֶ֑י⁠ךָ

gird_up & loins,yourself

See how you translated the same expression in 38:3. Alternate translation: “you must continue to take part in a difficult contest”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

כְ⁠גֶ֣בֶר

like,man

See how you translated the same expression in 38:3. Alternate translation: “like a brave person” or “as a soldier would do when going into battle”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / irony

אֶ֝שְׁאָלְ⁠ךָ֗ וְ⁠הוֹדִיעֵֽ⁠נִי

question,you and,declare,me

See how you translated the same expression in 38:3. Alternate translation: “I will question you and you can tell me what you think I do not already know”

Parallel JOB 40:7