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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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
- 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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