JOB 7:15 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Ἀπαλλάξεις ἀπὸ πνεύματός μου τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἀπὸ δὲ θανάτου τὰ ὀστᾶ μου.
(Apallaxeis apo pneumatos mou taʸn psuⱪaʸn mou, apo de thanatou ta osta mou. )

BrTr Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death.

UST And I wish someone would kill me by choking me
⇔ so that I would not have to stay alive and suffer so much.

BSB so that I would prefer strangling and death
⇔ over my life in this body.

OEB That gladly would I be strangled:
⇔ Death itself I spurn in my pain.

WEBBE so that my soul chooses strangling,
⇔ death rather than my bones.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET so that I would prefer strangling,
⇔ and death more than life.

LSV And my soul chooses strangling,
Death rather than my bones.

FBV that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.

T4T with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death
⇔ than to continue to be alive being only a bunch of bones.

LEB • [fn] my inner self[fn] will choose[fn] strangling— death more than my[fn]

7:? Or “And”

7:? Or “soul”

7:? Or “I will choose”

7:? Literally “bones”

BBE So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

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JPS So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than these my bones.

ASV So that my soul chooseth strangling,
⇔ And death rather than these my bones.

DRA So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

YLT And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

Drby So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.

RV So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than these my bones.

Wbstr So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

KJB-1769 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.[fn]

7.15 life: Heb. bones

KJB-1611 [fn]So that my soule chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life.
(So that my soul chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life.)

7:15 Heb. then my bones.

Bshps That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die, then my bones to remayne.
(That my soul wisheth rather to perish and die, then my bones to remayne.)

Gnva Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
(Therefore my soul chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones. )

Cvdl that my soule wyssheth rather to be hanged, and my bones to be deed.
(that my soul wyssheth rather to be hanged, and my bones to be dead.)

Wyc Wherfor my soule `chees hangyng, and my boonys cheesiden deth.
(Wherfor my soul `chees hangyng, and my boonys cheesiden death.)

Luth daß meine SeeLE wünschet erhangen zu sein, und meine Gebeine den Tod.
(daß my SeeLE wünschet erhangen to sein, and my Gebeine the Tod.)

ClVg Quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea, et mortem ossa mea.[fn]
(Quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea, and mortem ossa my. )

7.15 Quamobrem elegit. Ibid. Anima, est intentio mentis, etc., usque ad si hoc mihi facturus es interfice me.

7.15 Quamobrem elegit. Ibid. Anima, it_is intentio mentis, etc., until to si this to_me facturus you_are interfice me.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

וַ⁠תִּבְחַ֣ר & נַפְשִׁ֑⁠י

and,choose & inner_self,my

Job is using one part of himself, his soul, to mean all of him in the act of choosing. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and I choose”

Note 2 topic: translate-unknown

מַחֲנָ֣ק

strangling

The term strangling describes killing a person by squeezing his throat and stopping his breathing. If your readers would not be familiar with this term, in your translation you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “to stop breathing”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

מָ֝֗וֶת מֵֽ⁠עַצְמוֹתָֽ⁠י

death rather_than,body,my

Job 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: “yes, my soul chooses death rather than my bones”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מָ֝֗וֶת מֵֽ⁠עַצְמוֹתָֽ⁠י

death rather_than,body,my

Job is using the term bones to mean life by association with the way people are supported by their bones as they live on earth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “rather than life” or “rather than continuing to live on this earth”

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