Job 20:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

KJV

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

WEB

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

ASV

Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

LSV

Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

YLT

This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

DBY

Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

DRC

This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

GNV

Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

JPS

Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,

LXXE

Hast thou not known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֲזֹ֣את יָ֭דַעְתָּ מִנִּי־עַ֑ד מִנִּ֤י שִׂ֖ים אָדָ֣ם עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Μὴ ταῦτα ἔγνως ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔτι, ἀφʼ οὗ ἐτέθη ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 9:1–3And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that…
• Job 8:8–9Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers. For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
• Psalms 115:16The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
• Job 32:7I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.
• Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
• Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

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