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The LORD Challenges Job

Job 38:27

In 11 translations

BSB
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
KJV
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
WEB
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
ASV
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
LSV
To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?
YLT
To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
DBY
To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
DRC
That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
GNV
To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
JPS
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
LXXE
and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

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Original-language editions

WLC
לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָה וּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
LXX-Br
τοῦ χορτάσαι ἄβατον καὶ ἀοίκητον, καὶ τοῦ ἐκβλαστῆσαι ἔξοδον χλόης;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 107:35He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
  • Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

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