JOB 41:20 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Smoke pours from its nostrils,
⇔ like a boiling pot with a hollow reed in it.

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 Οὐ μὴ τρώσῃ αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκεον· ἥγηται μὲν πετροβόλον χόρτον.
(Ou maʸ trōsaʸ auton toxon ⱪalkeon; haʸgaʸtai men petrobolon ⱪorton. )

UST Smoke pours out of its nostrils
⇔ the way steam pours out of a pot of boiling water over a hot fire.

BSB Smoke billows from his nostrils
⇔ as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

OEB Smoke issues out of his nostrils,
⇔ Like a seething and boiling pot.

WEBBE Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
⇔ as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Smoke streams from its nostrils
⇔ as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

LSV Smoke goes forth out of his nostrils,
As a blown pot and reeds.

FBV Smoke comes from its nostrils, like steam from a kettle on a fire made of reeds.

T4T Smoke pours out of their nostrils/noses
⇔ like steam comes out of a pot that is put over a fire made from dry reeds.

LEB • as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes.

BBE Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

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JPS (41-12) Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

ASV Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth,
⇔ As of a boiling pot and burning rushes.

DRA As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.

YLT Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds.

Drby Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a boiling pot and cauldron.

RV Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, as of a seething pot and burning rushes.

Wbstr Out of his nostrils issueth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

KJB-1769 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
(Out of his nostrils goeth/goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. )

KJB-1611 Out of his nostrels goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And out of his nostrels there goeth a smoke, lyke as out of an hotte seething pot, or caldron.
(And out of his nostrils there goeth/goes a smoke, like as out of an hotte seething pot, or caldron.)

Gnva The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.
(The dartes are counted as strawe: and he laugheth at the shaking of the spear. )

Cvdl out off his nostrels there goeth a smoke, like as out off an hote seetinge pott.
(out off his nostrils there goeth/goes a smoke, like as out off an hote seetinge pott.)

Wycl He schal arette an hamer as stobil; and he schal scorne a florischynge spere.
(He shall arette an hamer as stobil; and he shall scorne a florischynge spere.)

Luth Kein Pfeil wird ihn verjagen; die Schleudersteine sind wie Stoppeln.
(Kein Pfeil becomes him/it verjagen; the Schleudersteine are like Stoppeln.)

ClVg Quasi stipulam æstimabit malleum, et deridebit vibrantem hastam.
(Quasi stipulam æstimabit malleum, and deridebit vibrantem hastam. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

כְּ⁠ד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְ⁠אַגְמֹֽן

(Some words not found in UHB: not flee,him son_of arrow to,stubble turned to=him/it stones sling )

Yahweh is using the term blown by association to mean a fire that someone has blown or fanned to make it burn hot. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “like a pot over a blown fire and a reed”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

כְּ⁠ד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְ⁠אַגְמֹֽן

(Some words not found in UHB: not flee,him son_of arrow to,stubble turned to=him/it stones sling )

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: “like a pot over a fire that someone has blown and a reed”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys

כְּ⁠ד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְ⁠אַגְמֹֽן

(Some words not found in UHB: not flee,him son_of arrow to,stubble turned to=him/it stones sling )

This phrase expresses a single idea by using two words connected with and. The word reed tells what kind of fuel the fire is burning that is heating the pot. People would make a fire out of dried reeds if they wanted it to burn hot quickly, although for a short time, such as to boil water. If it would be more natural in your language, you could express this meaning with an equivalent phrase that does not use “and.” Alternate translation: “like a pot that is boiling over a hot fire”

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