JOB 6:21 Parallel Verse View

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6:21 OSHB variant note: לא: (x-qere) ’ל֑/וֹ’: lemma_l n_1 morph_HR/Sp3ms id_18Env ל֑/וֹ

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 Ἀτὰρ δὲ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐπέβητέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως, ὥστε ἰδόντες τὸ ἐμὸν τραῦμα φοβήθητε.
(Atar de kai humeis epebaʸte moi aneleaʸmonōs, hōste idontes to emon trauma fobaʸthaʸte. )

BrTr But ye also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound ye are afraid.

UST Similarly, you three have not helped me at all!
⇔ You have seen that terrible things have happened to me,
⇔ and you are not helping me,
⇔ because you are afraid that God might do similar things to you.

OEB Such now have ye proved unto me:
⇔ When ye look on the terror, ye shudder.

WEBBE For now you are nothing.
⇔ You see a terror, and are afraid.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For now you have become like these streams that are no help;
⇔ you see a terror, and are afraid.

LSV Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.

FBV Now you are no help, just like that[fn]—you see my trouble and you're afraid.

6:21 Job is saying that Eliphaz is a helpful as a dried up stream that provides no water.

T4T Similarly, you friends have not helped me at all!
⇔ You have seen that terrible things have happened to me,
⇔ and you are afraid that God might do similar things to you.

LEB No LEB JOB book available

BBE So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS For now ye are become His; ye see a terror, and are afraid.

ASV For now ye are nothing;
⇔ Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

DRA Now you are come: and now seeing my affliction you are afraid.

YLT Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.

Drby So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.

RV For now ye are nothing; ye see a terror, and are afraid.
(For now ye/you_all are nothing; ye/you_all see a terror, and are afraid. )

SLT For now ye were not: ye shall see the terror and be afraid.

Wbstr For now ye are nothing: ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

KJB-1769 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.[fn][fn]
(For now ye/you_all are nothing; ye/you_all see my casting down, and are afraid. )

6.21 ye are…: or, ye are like to them: Heb. to it

6.21 nothing: Heb. not

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting downe, and are afraid.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

6:21 Or, for now ye are like to them. Hebr. to it.

6:21 Hebr. Not.

Bshps No Bshps JOB book available

Gnva Surely nowe are ye like vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide.
(Surely now are ye/you_all like unto it: ye/you_all have seen my fearful plague, and are afraid. )

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ClVg Nunc venistis; et modo videntes plagam meam, timetis.[fn]
(now I_camestis; and just/only they_seees plague of_mine, he_is_afraidis. )

6.21 Nunc venistis, et modo videntes plagam meam. Ibid. Quasi, ego Deum et ante adversa timui, vos qui ex amore Deum non timetis, ex solo verbere formidatis.

6.21 now I_camestis, and just/only they_seees plague of_mine. Ibid. Quasi, I God and before adverse timui, you who from with_love God not/no he_is_afraidis, from solo verbere formidatis.

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UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

כִּֽי

that/for/because/then/when

Job is using the word For to explain in what way his friends are like the desert streams he has been describing, as he said they were in verse 15. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this in your translation. Alternate translation: [You are like these streams because]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular

הֱיִ֣יתֶם & תִּֽרְא֥וּ & וַ⁠תִּירָֽאוּ

become & see & and,afraid

As the General Notes to this chapter discuss, the word you is plural here and in the rest of the chapter because Job is using it to address his three friends. Use the plural form in your translation if your language marks that distinction.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

הֱיִ֣יתֶם לא

become לא

Job is speaking of his friends as if they had become nothing, just as a stream ceases to exist when all of its water dries up. He means that his friends are offering him no help, just as a dried-up stream would not help a caravan that needed water in the desert. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [you are not offering me any help]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

תִּֽרְא֥וּ חֲ֝תַ֗ת וַ⁠תִּירָֽאוּ

see something_dreadful and,afraid

Job seems to be saying implicitly that his friends think that God has afflicted him with a terror and so they are afraid to console him, because they think God will afflict them as well if they take his side. You can indicate this in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [you think that God has sent this terror and so you are afraid to help me because you think God will punish you if you do]

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