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Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends

Job 32:19

In 11 translations

BSB
Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
KJV
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.hath…: Heb. is not opened
WEB
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
ASV
Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.
LSV
Behold, my breast [is] as wine not opened, || It is broken up like new bottles.
YLT
Lo, my breast [is] as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.
DBY
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; like new flasks, it is ready to burst.
DRC
Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.
GNV
Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast.
JPS
Behold, mine inwards are as wine which hath no vent; like new wine-skins which are ready to burst.
LXXE
And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's labouring bellows.

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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
הִנֵּֽה־בִטְנִ֗י כְּיַ֥יִן לֹא־יִפָּתֵ֑חַ כְּאֹב֥וֹת חֲ֝דָשִׁ֗ים יִבָּקֵֽעַ׃
LXX-Br
Ἡ δὲ γαστήρ μου ὥσπερ ἀσκὸς γλεύκους ζέων δεδεμένος, ἢ ὥσπερ φυσητὴρ χαλκέως ἐῤῥηγώς.

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  • Matthew 9:17Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

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