Parallel SIR 20:6

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) There’s one who keeps silent, for he has no answer to make;
⇔ And there’s one who keeps silent, knowing when to speak.

OET-LV he_is be_quiet, no for to_have/be answer, and he_is be_quiet to_perceive time/right_time.

Draft grammatical colours: khaki:verbs, orange:accusative/object, red:negative. Colours indicate agreement between available Greek form analyses; grammar in this passage has not been reviewed. Uncertain words remain uncoloured.

BrLXX Ἔστι σιωπῶν, οὐ γὰρ ἔχει ἀπόκρισιν, καὶ ἔστι σιωπῶν εἰδὼς καιρόν.
(Esti siōpōn, ou gar eⱪei apokrisin, kai esti siōpōn eidōs kairon.)

BrTr Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.

WEBBE There is one who keeps silent, for he has no answer to make;
⇔ And there is one who keeps silent, knowing when to speak.

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RV There is one that keepeth silence, for he hath no answer to make;
⇔ And there is that keepeth silence, as knowing his time.
(There is one that keepeth/keeps silence, for he hath/has no answer to make;
⇔ And there is that keepeth/keeps silence, as knowing his time.)

KJB-1769 Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.
(Some man holdeth/holds his tongue, because he hath/has not to answer: and some keepeth/keeps silence, knowing his time.)

KJB-1611 Some man holdeth his tongue, because hee hath not to answere, and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

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