Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
Job 20:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
- KJV
- Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:within…: Heb. in the midst of his palate
- WEB
- though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
- ASV
- Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
- LSV
- has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,
- YLT
- Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
- DBY
- [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
- DRC
- He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
- GNV
- And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
- JPS
- Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
- LXXE
- though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- יַחְמֹ֣ל עָ֭לֶיהָ וְלֹ֣א יַֽעַזְבֶ֑נָּה וְ֝יִמְנָעֶ֗נָּה בְּת֣וֹךְ חִכּֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- οὐ φείσεται αὐτῆς, καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει αὐτήν· καὶ συνάξει αὐτὴν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λάρυγγος αὐτοῦ,
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