PRO 3:4 Parallel Verse View

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

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 καὶ προνοοῦ καλὰ ἐνώπιον Κυρίου καὶ ἀνθρώπων.
(kai pronoou kala enōpion Kuriou kai anthrōpōn. )

BrTr so shalt thou find favour: [fn]and do thou [fn]provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

3:4 Alex. + 'and write them on the table of thine heart.'

3:4 See Rom. 12. 17.

UST As a result of doing so, both God and people will approve of you and think well of you.

OEB so favour and good repute will you find
⇔ alike with God and people.

WEBBE So you will find favour,
⇔ and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Then you will find favor and good understanding,
⇔ in the sight of God and people.

LSV And find grace and good understanding
In the eyes of God and man.

FBV That way you'll gain a good reputation and be appreciated by both God and people.

T4T If you do, God and people will approve of you
⇔ and think highly of you [MTY].

LEB • [fn] in the eyes of God and humankind.

3:? Or “understanding, prudence”

BBE So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man.

ASV So shalt thou find favor and good understanding
⇔ In the sight of God and man.

DRA And thou shalt And grace and good understanding before God and men.

YLT And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

Drby and thou shalt find favour and good understanding in the sight of [fn]God and man.

3.4 Elohim

RV So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Wbstr So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

KJB-1769 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.[fn]
(So shalt thou/you find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. )

3.4 good…: or, good success

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]So shalt thou find fauour, and good vnderstanding in the sight of God, and man.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

3:4 Psal. 111. 10.

3:4 Or, good successe.

Bshps So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstandyng in the sight of God and men.
(So shalt thou/you find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and men.)

Gnva So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstanding in the sight of God and man.
(So shalt thou/you find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. )

Cvdl So shalt thou fynde fauor and good vnderstondinge in ye sight of God and men.
(So shalt thou/you find fauor and good understanding in ye/you_all sight of God and men.)

Wycl And thou schalt fynde grace, and good teching bifore God and men.
(And thou/you shalt find grace, and good teaching before God and men.)

Luth so wirst du Gunst und Klugheit finden, die GOtt und Menschen gefällt.
(so will you Gunst and Klugheit finden, the God and Menschen gefällt.)

ClVg et invenies gratiam, et disciplinam bonam, coram Deo et hominibus.[fn]
(and invenies gratiam, and disciplinam bonam, before Deo and hominibus. )

3.4 Et invenies gratiam. Coram Domino, etc., usque ad et proximis exemplum vivendi præbeat.

3.4 And invenies gratiam. Coram Master, etc., until to and proximis exemplum vivendi præbeat.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

וּ⁠מְצָא־חֵ֖ן

and,find graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty

Here the word and introduces the result of obeying the commands stated in the previous verse. Use the most natural way in your language to indicate results. You may need to start a new sentence. Alternate translation: “If you do these things, then you will find favor” or “This will result in you finding favor”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וּ⁠מְצָא־חֵ֖ן וְ⁠שֵֽׂכֶל־ט֑וֹב

and,find graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty and,repute good

Here Solomon speaks of favor and good insight as if they were objects that a person could find. He means that God and man will show favor and good insight to the person who does what Solomon commanded in the previous verse. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and you will experience favor and good insight”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

בְּ⁠עֵינֵ֖י

in/on=both_eyes_of

Here, eyes refers to seeing, and seeing is a metaphor for knowledge, notice, attention, or judgment. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “in the judgment of”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

וְ⁠אָדָֽם

and=human/ʼĀdām

Solomon is speaking of people in general, not of one particular man. If it would be helpful in your language, use a more natural phrase. Alternate translation: “and others”

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