JOB 5:9 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) He does incredible things,
⇔ and performs wonders without number that are beyond our understanding.

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 τὸν ποιοῦντα μεγάλα καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστα, ἔνδοξά τε καὶ ἐξαίσια, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμὸς,
(ton poiounta megala kai anexiⱪniasta, endoxa te kai exaisia, hōn ouk estin arithmos, )

BrTr who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:

ULT the one doing great things and there is no searching,
⇔ marvelous things until there is no number,

UST God does great things that we can not understand.
⇔ We can not even count the marvelous things that God does.

BSB [the One] who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
⇔ 

MSB [the One] who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
⇔ 

OEB Who doeth great things and unsearchable,
⇔ Marvellous things without number,

CSB He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

NLT He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.

NIV He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.

CEV His miracles are marvelous, more than we can count.

ESV who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

NASB Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.

LSB Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.

WEBBE who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
⇔ marvellous things without number;

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG ^(8-16)“If I were in your shoes, I’d go straight to God,
  I’d throw myself on the mercy of God.
After all, he’s famous for great and unexpected acts;
  there’s no end to his surprises.
He gives rain, for instance, across the wide earth,
  sends water to irrigate the fields.
He raises up the down-and-out,
  gives firm footing to those sinking in grief.
He aborts the schemes of conniving crooks,
  so that none of their plots come to term.
He catches the know-it-alls in their conspiracies—
  all that intricate intrigue swept out with the trash!
Suddenly they’re disoriented, plunged into darkness;
  they can’t see to put one foot in front of the other.
But the downtrodden are saved by God,
  saved from the murderous plots, saved from the iron fist.
And so the poor continue to hope,
  while injustice is bound and gagged.

NET He does great and unsearchable things,
⇔ marvelous things without number;

LSV Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, until there is no numbering.

FBV He is the one who does amazing, incredible things; miracles that can't be counted!

T4T He does great things, things that we cannot understand;
⇔ we cannot even count the marvelous things that he does.

LEB No LEB JOB book available

NRSV He does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.

NKJV Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number.

NAB He does things great and unsearchable, things marvelous and innumerable.

BBE Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

ASV Who doeth great things and unsearchable,
⇔ Marvellous things without number:

DRA Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:

YLT Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

Drby Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

RV Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
(Which doth/does great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: )

SLT He did great things, and no searching; and wonders even no number:

Wbstr Who doeth great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number:

KJB-1769 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:[fn][fn]
(Which doth/does great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: )

5.9 unsearchable: Heb. there is no search

5.9 without…: Heb. till there be no number

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]Which doth great things & vnsearchable: marueilous things without number.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

5:9 Heb. and there is no search.

5:9 Heb. till there be no number.

Bshps No Bshps JOB book available

Gnva Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
(Which doth/does great things and unsearchable, and marvellous things without number. )

Cvdl No Cvdl JOB book available

Wycl No Wycl JOB book available

Luth No Luth JOB book available

ClVg qui facit magna et inscrutabilia, et mirabilia absque numero;[fn]
(who he_does big and inscrutabilia, and wonderful_things without numero; )

5.9 Mirabilia absque numero. Quia divinorum operum magnitudo, nec ex qualitate valet discuti nec ex quantitate numerari.

5.9 Mirabilia without numero. Because divinorum works greattudo, but_not from qualitate valet discuti but_not from quantitate numerari.

RP-GNT No RP-GNT JOB book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj

גְ֭דֹלוֹת & נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת

great & marvellous

Eliphaz is using the adjectives great and marvelous as nouns to mean certain kinds of things. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate these words with equivalent phrases. For example, you could add the word things in both cases, as the ULT does to show the meaning.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וְ⁠אֵ֣ין חֵ֑קֶר

and,cannot that_~_befathomed

Eliphaz means implicitly that even if people search or seek to find out how God does great things, they cannot succeed in learning this. Express this in the way that would be most natural in your language. Alternate translation: [that are unsearchable] or [that no one can understand]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת

marvellous

Eliphaz is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [and who does marvelous things]

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