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Job: God Will Punish the Wicked

Job 21:29

In 11 translations

BSB
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
KJV
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
WEB
Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
ASV
Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
LSV
Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?
YLT
Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?
DBY
Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
DRC
Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
GNV
May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
JPS
Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens,
LXXE
Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.

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Original-language editions

WLC
הֲלֹ֣א שְׁ֭אֶלְתֶּם ע֣וֹבְרֵי דָ֑רֶךְ וְ֝אֹתֹתָ֗ם לֹ֣א תְנַכֵּֽרוּ׃
LXX-Br
Ἐρωτήσατε παραπορευομένους ὁδὸν, καὶ τὰ σημεῖα αὐτῶν οὐκ ἀπαλλοτριώσετε.

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  • Psalms 129:8May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

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