JOB 7:12 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Do you think that I’m the sea or the sea monster
⇔ that you will station a guard to watch 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 Πότερον θάλασσα εἰμὶ ἢ δράκων, ὅτι κατέταξας ἐπʼ ἐμὲ φυλακήν;
(Poteron thalassa eimi aʸ drakōn, hoti katetaxas epʼ eme fulakaʸn; )

UST God, you do not need to watch what I am doing so closely!
⇔ I am not a dangerous sea monster!

BSB Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,
⇔ that You must keep me under guard?

OEB Am I a sea or a sea-monster,
⇔ That upon me Thou settest a watch?

WEBBE Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
⇔ that you put a guard over me?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep,
⇔ that you must put me under guard?

LSV Am I a sea [monster], or a dragon,
That You set a watch over me?

FBV Am I the sea or a sea monster that you have to guard me?

T4T God, why do you watch closely what I am doing?
⇔ Do you think that I am a dangerous sea monster?

LEB • the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

BBE Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that Thou settest a watch over me?

ASV Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,
⇔ That thou settest a watch over me?

DRA Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

YLT A sea -[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

Drby Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

RV Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

Wbstr Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

KJB-1769 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
(Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou/you settest a watch over me? )

KJB-1611 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me so in prison?
(Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou/you kepest me so in prison?)

Gnva Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?
(Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou/you keepest me in warde? )

Cvdl Am I a see or a whalfysh, that thou kepest me so in preson?
(Am I a see or a whalfysh, that thou/you kepest me so in preson?)

Wycl Whether Y am the see, ethir a whal, for thou hast cumpassid me with prisoun?
(Whether I am the see, ethir a whal, for thou/you hast cumpassid me with prisoun?)

Luth Bin ich denn ein Meer oder ein Walfisch, daß du mich so verwahrest?
(Bin I because a sea or a Walfisch, that you me so verwahrest?)

ClVg Numquid mare ego sum, aut cetus, quia circumdedisti me carcere?[fn]
(Numquid the_sea I I_am, aut cetus, because circumdedisti me carcere? )

7.12 Nunquid mare sum. Ibid. Carcer, est caro quæ impedit, etc., usque ad nunc subdit consilium contra ea.

7.12 Nunquid the_sea sum. Ibid. Carcer, it_is caro which impedit, etc., until to now subdit consilium on_the_contrary ea.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הֲֽ⁠יָם־אָ֭נִי אִם־תַּנִּ֑ין כִּֽי־תָשִׂ֖ים עָלַ֣⁠י מִשְׁמָֽר

?,sea I if sea_monster that/for/because/then/when set over,me guard

Job is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “I am not the sea or the sea monster, so you do not need to set a guard over me!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

הֲֽ⁠יָם & אִם־תַּנִּ֑ין

?,sea & if sea_monster

See the General Introduction to Job for a discussion of the sea monster and see how you translated the name Leviathan in 3:8. Alternate translation: “the sea monster that is associated with chaos”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / declarative

כִּֽי־תָשִׂ֖ים

that/for/because/then/when set

Job is using the future tense to indicate something that God would do out of necessity. Your language may have its own way of expressing such a meaning. Alternate translation: “that you would have to set”

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