JOB 41:8 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Put your hand on it and you’ll remember the battle—
⇔ don’t do it!

UHB 32 שִׂים־עָלָ֥י⁠ו כַּפֶּ֑⁠ךָ זְכֹ֥ר מִ֝לְחָמָ֗ה אַל־תּוֹסַֽף׃ 41 ‡
(32 sīm-ˊālāy⁠v kape⁠kā zəkor milḩāmāh ʼal-tōşaf. 41)

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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 Εἷς τοῦ ἑνὸς κολλῶνται, πνεῦμα δὲ οὐ μὴ διέλθῃ αὐτόν.
(Heis tou henos kollōntai, pneuma de ou maʸ dielthaʸ auton. )

UST If you try to fight with a crocodile, it will give you a battle that you will never forget!
⇔ You will never try to do that again!

BSB If you lay a hand on him,
⇔ you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

OEB Lay but thine hand upon him:
⇔ Remember the battle – enough!

WEBBE Lay your hand on him.
⇔ Remember the battle, and do so no more.

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG ^(1-11)“Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod
  and stuff him in your creel?
Can you lasso him with a rope,
  or snag him with an anchor?
Will he beg you over and over for mercy,
  or flatter you with flowery speech?
Will he apply for a job with you
  to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?
Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish?
  Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?
Will you put him on display in the market
  and have shoppers haggle over the price?
Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion,
  or drive harpoons into his huge head?
If you so much as lay a hand on him,
  you won’t live to tell the story.
What hope would you have with such a creature?
  Why, one look at him would do you in!
If you can’t hold your own against his glowering visage,
  how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?
Who could confront me and get by with it?
  I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!

NET If you lay your hand on it,
⇔ you will remember the fight,
⇔ and you will never do it again!

LSV Place your hand on him,
Remember the battle—do not add!

FBV If you were to grab hold of it, imagine the battle you would have! You wouldn't do that again!

T4T If you grab one of them with your hands, it will fight you in a way that you will never forget,
⇔ and you will never try to do it again!

LEB • think about the battle—you will not do it again!
¶ 

BBE Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

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JPS (40-32) Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.

ASV Lay thy hand upon him;
⇔ Remember the battle, and do so no more.

DRA They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.

YLT Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle — do not add!

Drby Lay thy hand upon him; remember the battle, — do no more!

RV Lay thine hand upon him; remember the battle, and do so no more.

Wbstr Lay thy hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

KJB-1769 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
(Lay thine/your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. )

KJB-1611 Lay thine hand vpon him, remember the battell: doe no more.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Laye thyne hande vpon him, remember the battaile, and do no more so.
(Laye thine/your hand upon him, remember the battle, and do no more so.)

Gnva One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.
(One is joined to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered. )

Cvdl Darrest thou laye honde vpon him? It is better for the to considre what harme might happe the there thorow and not to touch him.
(Darrest thou/you lay hand upon him? It is better for the to considre what harm might happen the there through and not to touch him.)

Wycl Oon schal cleue to anothir, and tho holdynge hem silf schulen not be departid.
(Oon shall cleue to another, and those holdynge them self should not be departed.)

Luth Eine rührt an die andere, daß nicht ein Lüftlein dazwischengehet.
(Eine rührt at the andere, that not a Lüftlein dazwischengehet.)

ClVg Una alteri adhærebit, et tenentes se nequaquam separabuntur.
(Una alteri adhærebit, and tenentes se nequaquam separabuntur. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical

שִׂים־עָלָ֥י⁠ו כַּפֶּ֑⁠ךָ זְכֹ֥ר מִ֝לְחָמָ֗ה אַל־תּוֹסַֽף

(Some words not found in UHB: one(ms) in/on/at/with,another near and=spirit not come between,them )

Yahweh is actually making a conditional statement here. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “If you ever put your hand on it, you will always remember the battle you fought with it, and you will never do that again!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

שִׂים־עָלָ֥י⁠ו כַּפֶּ֑⁠ךָ

(Some words not found in UHB: one(ms) in/on/at/with,another near and=spirit not come between,them )

Here, hand represents power. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Use force against it” or “Try to fight with it”

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