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The LORD Challenges Job

Job 38:21

In 11 translations

BSB
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
KJV
Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
WEB
Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
ASV
Doubtless, thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!
LSV
You have known—for then you are born, || And the number of your days [are] many!
YLT
Thou hast known — for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many!
DBY
Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
DRC
Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
GNV
Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?
JPS
Thou knowest it, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
LXXE
I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יָ֭דַעְתָּ כִּי־אָ֣ז תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וּמִסְפַּ֖ר יָמֶ֣יךָ רַבִּֽים׃
LXX-Br
Οἶδα ἄρα ὅτι τότε γεγέννησαι, ἀριθμὸς δὲ ἐτῶν σου πολύς;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 15:7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
  • Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
  • Job 38:4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

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