Job 31:31

In 11 translations

BSB

if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

KJV

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

WEB

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

ASV

If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

LSV

If not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.

YLT

If not — say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

DBY

If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? —

DRC

If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

GNV

Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied.

JPS

If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'

LXXE

And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

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WLC

אִם־לֹ֣א אָ֭מְרוּ מְתֵ֣י אָהֳלִ֑י מִֽי־יִתֵּ֥ן מִ֝בְּשָׂר֗וֹ לֹ֣א נִשְׂבָּֽע׃

LXX-Br

Εἰ δὲ καὶ πολλάκις εἶπον αἱ θεράπαιναί μου, τίς ἄν δῴη ἡμῖν τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτοῦ πλησθῆναι; λίαν μου χρηστοῦ ὄντος·

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• Luke 22:50–51And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
• 1 Samuel 26:8Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
• 1 Samuel 24:4So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a…
• Luke 9:54–55When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them.
• Psalms 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
• Jeremiah 40:15–16Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have…
• 2 Samuel 19:21–22But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?” And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries…
• Proverbs 1:11–12If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
• Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
• 2 Samuel 16:9–10Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!” But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses…
• Job 22:7You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
• 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the…
• Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
• Micah 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh…

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