Wisdom 15:7 — compare Bible translations

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OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Because a potter, kneading soft earth,
⇔ laboriously moulds each article for our service.
⇔ He fashions out of the same clay
⇔ both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort,
⇔ all in the same way.
⇔ What’ll be the use of each article of either sort,
⇔ the potter is the judge.

Draft grammatical colours: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor. Colours indicate agreement between available Greek form analyses; grammar in this passage has not been reviewed. Uncertain words remain uncoloured.

BrLXX Καὶ γὰρ κεραμεὺς ἁπαλὴν γῆν θλίβων ἐπίμοχθον, πλάσσει πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν ἡμῶν ἕκαστον. ἀλλʼ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πηλοῦ ἀνεπλάσατο τά τε τῶν καθαρῶν ἔργων δοῦλα σκεύη, τά τε ἐναντία, πάνθʼ ὁμοίως· τούτων δὲ ἑκατέρου τίς ἑκάστου ἐστὶν ἡ χρῆσις, κριτὴς ὁ πηλουργός.
(Kai gar kerameus hapalaʸn gaʸn thlibōn epimoⱪthon, plassei pros hupaʸresian haʸmōn hekaston. allʼ ek tou autou paʸlou aneplasato ta te tōn katharōn ergōn doula skeuaʸ, ta te enantia, panthʼ homoiōs; toutōn de hekaterou tis hekastou estin haʸ ⱪraʸsis, kritaʸs ho paʸlourgos.)

BrTr For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.

WEBBE ⇔ For a potter, kneading soft earth,
⇔ laboriously moulds each article for our service.
⇔ He fashions out of the same clay
⇔ both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort,
⇔ all in like manner.
⇔ What shall be the use of each article of either sort,
⇔ the potter is the judge.

DRA The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge.

RV ⇔ For a potter, kneading soft earth,
⇔ Laboriously mouldeth each several vessel for our service:
⇔ Nay, out of the same clay doth he fashion
⇔ Both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort,
⇔ All in like manner;
⇔ But what shall be the use of each vessel of either sort,
⇔ The [fn] craftsman himself is the judge.
( ⇔ For a potter, kneading soft earth,
⇔ Laboriously mouldeth each several vessel for our service:
⇔ Nay, out of the same clay doeth/does he fashion
⇔ Both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort,
⇔ All in like manner;
⇔ But what shall be the use of each vessel of either sort,
⇔ The craftsman himself is the judge.)

15:7 Gr. worker in clay.

KJB-1769 For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
(For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth/fashions every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh/makes both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.)

KJB-1611 For the potter tempering soft earth fashioneth, euery vessell with much labour for our seruice: yea of the same clay hee maketh both the vessels that serue for cleane vses: and likewise also all such as serue to the contrary: but what is the vse of either sort, the potter himselfe is the iudge.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Wycl But also a pottere, thristynge neische erthe, bi greet trauel makith ech vessel to oure vsis; and of the same clei he makith vessels that ben clene to vss, and in lijk maner tho that ben contrarie to these; forsothe what vss is of these vessels, the pottere is iuge.
(But also a potter, thrusting soft earth, by great travel maketh/makes each vessel to our uses; and of the same clay he maketh/makes vessels that been clean to us, and in like manner those that been contrary to these; for_certain/truly what us is of these vessels, the potter is judge.)

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