ROM 3:11 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, red:negative.
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).

AICNT there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

OEB not one who understands,
⇔ not one who is searching for God!

WEBBE There is no one who understands.
⇔ There is no one who seeks after God.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET there is no one who understands,
⇔  there is no one who seeks God.

LSV there is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

FBV No one understands; no one seeks God.

TCNT there is none who understands;
⇔ there is none who seeks after God.

T4T There is no one who understands how to live properly (OR, about God). There is no one who seeks/desires to know God!

LEB • there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.

BBE Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

Moff No Moff ROM book available

Wymth There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

ASV There is none that understandeth,
⇔ There is none that seeketh after God;

DRA There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

YLT There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

Drby there is not the [man] that understands, there is not one that seeks after [fn]God.

3.11 Elohim

RV There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

Wbstr There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.

KJB-1769 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh/seeks after God. )

KJB-1611 There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(There is none that understandth, there is none that seeketh/seeks after God.)

Bshps There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God.
(There is none that understandth, there is none that seeketh/seeks after God.)

Gnva There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
(There is none that understandth: there is none that seeketh/seeks God. )

Cvdl There is none yt vnderstondeth, there is none that seketh after God.
(There is none it understoodth, there is none that seeketh/seeks after God.)

TNT There is none that vnderstondith there is none that seketh after God
(There is none that understondith there is none that seeketh/seeks after God )

Wycl ther is no man vndurstondynge, nethir sekynge God.
(ther is no man understondynge, neither seeking God.)

Luth da ist nicht, der verständig sei; da ist nicht, der nach GOtt frage.
(da is not, the/of_the sensible/understanding sei; there is not, the/of_the after God frage.)

ClVg non est intelligens, non est requirens Deum.[fn]
(non it_is intelligens, not/no it_is requirens God. )

3.11 Non est requirens. Ex operibus poterant quærere et invenire quod Christus erat Deus.

3.11 Non it_is requirens. From operibus they_could quærere and invenire that Christus was God.

UGNT οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ συνίων; οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν.
(ouk estin ho suniōn; ouk estin ho ekzaʸtōn ton Theon.)

SBL-GNT οὐκ ἔστιν ⸀ὁ συνίων, οὐκ ἔστιν ⸁ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν θεόν·
(ouk estin ⸀ho suniōn, ouk estin ⸁ho ekzaʸtōn ton theon;)

TC-GNT οὐκ ἔστιν [fn]ὁ συνιῶν,
⇔ οὐκ ἔστιν [fn]ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν·
(ouk estin ho suniōn,
⇔ ouk estin ho ekzaʸtōn ton Theon; )

3:11 ο ¦ — WH

Key for above GNTs: red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ συνίων; οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν

not ˱there˲_is not ˱there˲_is the_‹one› (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οὐκ ἔστιν συνίων οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν)

This sentence is Paul’s paraphrase of Psalm 14:2 and Psalm 53:3. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this by setting off all of this material with quotation marks or with whatever punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj

οὐκ ἔστιν & οὐκ ἔστιν

not ˱there˲_is & not ˱there˲_is

Paul is using the adjectives none as nouns in order to describe all people. If your language does not use adjectives in the same way, you could translate this with a noun phrase. Alternate translation: [There are no man … There are no man] or [There is no person … There is no person]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ συνίων

not ˱there˲_is not ˱there˲_is the_‹one› (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οὐκ ἔστιν συνίων οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν)

Here, who understands refers to someone who is able to think wisely or correctly. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: [There is none who is wise]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν

the_‹one› seeking_out ¬the God

Here, Paul quotes David using seeks to describe people attempting to know God as if God were lost and people needed to find him. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [who attempts to know God]

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