WIS 8:12 Parallel Verse View

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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) When I’m silent, they’ll wait for me.
⇔ When I open my lips, they’ll heed what I say.
⇔ If I continue speaking, they’ll put their hands on their mouths.

Draft grammatical colours: khaki:verbs, 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 Σιγῶντά με περιμενοῦσι, καὶ φθεγγομένῳ προσέξουσι, καὶ λαλοῦντος ἐπιπλεῖον, χεῖρα ἐπιθήσουσιν ἐπὶ στόμα αὐτῶν.
(Sigōnta me perimenousi, kai fthengomenōi prosexousi, kai lalountos epipleion, ⱪeira epithaʸsousin epi stoma autōn.)

BrTr When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, and when I speak, they shall give good ear unto me: if I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth.

WEBBE When I am silent, they will wait for me.
⇔ When I open my lips, they will heed what I say.
⇔ If I continue speaking, they will put their hands on their mouths.

DRA They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and they shall look upon me when I speak, and if I talk much they shall lay their hands on their mouths.

RV When I am silent, they shall wait for me;
⇔ And when I open my lips, they shall give heed unto me;
⇔ And if I continue speaking, they shall lay their hand upon their mouth.

KJB-1769 When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, and when I speak, they shall give good ear unto me: if I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth.

KJB-1611 When I hold my tongue they shal bide my leisure, and when I speake they shall giue good eare vnto me: if I talke much, they shall lay their handes vpon their mouth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Wycl Thei schulen abide me, beynge stille, and thei schulen biholde me, spekynge; and the while I speke many thingis, thei schulen sette hondis on her mouth.
(They should abide me, being still, and they should behold me, speaking; and the while I speak many things, they should set hands on her mouth.)

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