Job’s Final Appeal
Job 31:26
In 11 translations
- BSB
- if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,Hebrew the light
- KJV
- If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;sun: Heb. lightin…: Heb. bright
- WEB
- if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
- ASV
- If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
- LSV
- If I see the light when it shines, || And the precious moon walking,
- YLT
- If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,
- DBY
- If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
- DRC
- If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:
- GNV
- If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,
- JPS
- If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
- LXXE
- (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִם־אֶרְאֶ֣ה א֖וֹר כִּ֣י יָהֵ֑ל וְ֝יָרֵ֗חַ יָקָ֥ר הֹלֵֽךְ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἢ οὐχ ὁρῶμεν ἥλιον τὸν ἐπιθαύσκοντα ἐκλείποντα, σελήνην δὲ φθίνουσαν; οὐ γὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς ἐστί·
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- Ezekiel 8:16So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the…
- Deuteronomy 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 17:3and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
- 2 Kings 23:11And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up…
- Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the…
- 2 Kings 23:5Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to…
- Jeremiah 8:2They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying…
- Genesis 1:16–18God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth, to preside…
- Deuteronomy 11:16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
- Psalms 8:3–4When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place— what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
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