JOB 8:5 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) If you genuinely search for God,
⇔ and you request a favour from the provider,

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
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 Σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς Κύριον παντοκράτορα δεόμενος.
(Su de orthrize pros Kurion pantokratora deomenos. )

UST But as for you, you should pray to God. Yes, you should ask Shaddai to help you.

OEB Yet seek thou thyself unto God,
⇔ And supplicate the Almighty.

WEBBE If you want to seek God diligently,
⇔ make your supplication to the Almighty.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET But if you will look to God,
⇔ and make your supplication to the Almighty,

LSV If you seek for God early,
And make supplication to the Mighty,

FBV But if you pray to God and ask for his help,

T4T But, if you will now earnestly request [DOU] Almighty God to help you,

LEB • [fn] would seek God, then[fn] you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

8:1 Emphatic personal pronoun

8:1 Hebrew “and”

BBE If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

ASV If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God,
⇔ And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

DRA Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

YLT If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

Drby If thou seek earnestly unto [fn]God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

8.5 El

RV If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

Wbstr If thou wouldst seek to God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

KJB-1769 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
(If thou/you wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy/your supplication to the Almighty; )

KJB-1611 [fn]If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

8:5 Chap.22. 23.

Bshps If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie,
(If thou/you wouldest now resorte unto God be times, and make thy/your prayer to the almightie,)

Gnva Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,
(Yet if thou/you wilt/will early seek unto God, and pray to the Almighty, )

Cvdl Yff thou woldest now resorte vnto God by tymes, and make thine humble prayer to ye Allmightie:
(Yff thou/you would now resorte unto God by times, and make thine/your humble prayer to ye/you_all Allmightie:)

Wycl netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,
(netheles, if thou/you risist early to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou/you goist clene and riytful,)

Luth So du aber dich beizeiten zu GOtt tust und dem Allmächtigen flehest,
(So you but you/yourself beizeiten to God tust and to_him Allmächtigen flehest,)

ClVg tu tamen si diluculo consurrexeris ad Deum, et Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus;
(tu tamen when/but_if diluculo consurrexeris to God, and Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus; )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns

אִם־אַ֭תָּה תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר אֶל־אֵ֑ל

if you(ms) seek to/towards god

For emphasis, Bildad is stating the pronoun you, whose meaning is already present in the verb translated seek diligently. If your language can state implied pronouns explicitly for emphasis, you may want to use that construction here in your translation. Other languages may have other ways of bringing out this emphasis. Alternate translation: “If you seek diligently for God yourself”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וְ⁠אֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י תִּתְחַנָּֽן

and=near/to almighty make_supplication

Bildad 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 if to the Almighty you appeal”

Parallel JOB 8:5