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Elihu Describes God’s Power

Job 36:12

In 11 translations

BSB
But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.Or they will cross the river of death
KJV
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.perish: Heb. pass away
WEB
But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
ASV
But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
LSV
And if they do not listen, || They pass away by the dart, || And expire without knowledge.
YLT
And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
DBY
But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
DRC
But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
GNV
But if they wil not obey, they shall passe by the sworde, and perish without knowledge.
JPS
But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
LXXE
But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.

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WLC
וְאִם־לֹ֣א יִ֭שְׁמְעוּ בְּשֶׁ֣לַח יַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְ֝יִגְוְע֗וּ כִּבְלִי־דָֽעַת׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
LXX-Br
Ἀσεβεῖς δὲ οὐ διασώζει, παρὰ τὸ μὴ βούλεσθαι αὐτοὺς εἰδέναι τὸν Κύριον, καὶ διότι νουθετούμενοι ἀνήκοοι ἦσαν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 4:21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
  • Romans 2:8–9But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the…
  • Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
  • Deuteronomy 29:15–20but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today. For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed…
  • Isaiah 1:20But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  • John 8:21–24Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going,…
  • Deuteronomy 18:15–22The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him. This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not…
  • Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

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