Parallel LAM 4:8

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OEB Now blacker than darkness their form–
 ⇔ On the streets no one knows them:
 ⇔ Their skin is drawn tight on their bones;
 ⇔ It is dry as a stick.

WEBBE  ⇔ Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
 ⇔ They are not known in the streets.
 ⇔ Their skin clings to their bones.
 ⇔ It is withered.
 ⇔ It has become like wood.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Now their appearance is darker than soot;
 ⇔ they are not recognized in the streets.
 ⇔ Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
 ⇔ it is dried up, like tree bark.

LSV Their face has been darker than blackness,
They have not been known in out-places,
Their skin has cleaved to their bone,
It has withered—it has been as wood.

FBV But now they look blacker than soot; no one recognizes them in the street. Their skin has shrunk to their bones and is as dry as wood.

T4T  ⇔ But now their faces are blacker than soot,
 ⇔ and no one recognizes them in the streets.
 ⇔ Their skin has shriveled on their bones,
 ⇔ and it has become as dry as [SIM] a wooden stick.

LEB  • Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; •  their skin has shriveled on their bones, •  it has become dry like wood.

BBE Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

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JPS Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

ASV Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets:
 ⇔ Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

DRA Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

YLT Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered — it hath been as wood.

Drby Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.

RV Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Wbstr Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

KJB-1769 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.[fn]

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KJB-1611 [fn]Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not knowen in the streets: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke.
   (Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke.)

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Bshps But nowe their faces be very blacke, insomuche that thou shouldest not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones, it is withered and become like a drye stocke.
   (But now their faces be very blacke, insomuche that thou/you should not know them in the streets: their skin cleaueth to their bones, it is withered and become like a drye stocke.)

Gnva Nowe their visage is blacker then a cole: they can not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered like a stocke.
   (Now their visage is blacker then a cole: they cannot know them in the streets: their skin cleaueth to their bones: it is withered like a stocke. )

Cvdl But now their faces are very black: In so moch, that thou shuldest not knowe them in the stretes. Their skynne cleueth to their bones, It is wythered, and become like a drye stock.
   (But now their faces are very black: In so much, that thou/you shuldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleueth to their bones, It is withered, and become like a drye stock.)

Wycl Heth. The face of hem was maad blackere than coolis, and thei weren not knowun in stretis; the skyn cleuyde to her boonys, it driede, and was maad as a tre.
   (Heth. The face of them was made blackere than coolis, and they were not known in stretis; the skin cleuyde to her boonys, it driede, and was made as a tre.)

Luth Nun aber ist ihre Gestalt so dunkel vor Schwärze, daß man sie auf den Gassen nicht kennet; ihre Haut hänget an den Beinen, und sind so dürre als ein Scheit.
   (Now but is their/her Gestalt so dunkel before/in_front_of Schwärze, that man they/she/them on the Gassen not kennet; their/her skin hänget at the Beinen, and are so dürre als a Scheit.)

ClVg Heth Denigrata est super carbones facies eorum et non sunt cogniti in plateis; adhæsit cutis eorum ossibus: aruit, et facta est quasi lignum.
   (Heth Denigrata it_is over carbones faces their and not/no are cogniti in plateis; adhæsit cutis their ossibus: aruit, and facts it_is as_if lignum. )