WIS 8:8 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) And if anyone longs for wide experience,
⇔ she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come.
⇔ She understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings.
⇔ She foresees signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.

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

BrLXX Εἰ δὲ καὶ πολυπειρίαν ποθεῖ τις, οἶδε τὰ ἀρχαῖα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα εἰκάζειν, ἐπίσταται στροφὰς λόγων καὶ λύσεις αἰνιγμάτων, σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα προγινώσκει, καὶ ἐκβάσεις καιρῶν καὶ χρόνων.
(Ei de kai polupeirian pothei tis, oide ta arⱪaia kai ta mellonta eikazein, epistatai strofas logōn kai luseis ainigmatōn, saʸmeia kai terata proginōskei, kai ekbaseis kairōn kai ⱪronōn.)

BrTr If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.

WEBBE And if anyone longs for wide experience,
⇔ she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come.
⇔ She understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings.
⇔ She foresees signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.

DRA And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.

RV And if a man longeth even for much experience,
⇔ She knoweth [fn] the things of old, and [fn] divineth the things to come:
⇔ She understandeth subtilties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings:
⇔ She foreseeth signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.
(And if a man longeth even for much experience,
⇔ She knoweth/knows the things of old, and divineth the things to come:
⇔ She understandeth/understands subtleties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings:
⇔ She foreseeth signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.)

8:8 Some authorities read how to divine the things of old and the things to come.

8:8 Gr. conjectureth.

KJB-1769 If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.
(If a man desire much experience, she knoweth/knows things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth/knows the subtleties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.)

KJB-1611 If a man desire much experience: she knoweth things of old, and coniectureth aright what is to come: shee knoweth the subtilties of speaches, and can expound darke sentences: she foreseeth signes and wonders, and the euents of seasons and times.
(If a man desire much experience: she knoweth/knows things of old, and coniectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth/knows the subtleties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.)

Wycl And if a man desirith multitude of kunnyng, wisdom knowith thingis passid, and gessith of thingis to comynge; it kan the felnessis of wordis, and asoilyngis of argumentis; it kan signes and schewyngis of thingis to comynge, bifore that tho ben maad; and the bifallyngis of tymes and of worldus.
(And if a man desireth/desires multitude of cunning, wisdom knoweth/knows things passed, and considers of things to coming; it can the fiercenesses of words, and asoilyngis of arguments; it can signs and showings of things to coming, before that those been made; and the happenings of times and of world's.)

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