The Ninevites Repent

Jonah 3:9

In 11 translations

BSB: Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
KJV: Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
WEB: Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
ASV: Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
LSV: Who knows? He turns back, and God has relented, and has turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.”
YLT: Who knoweth? He doth turn back, and God hath repented, and hath turned back from the heat of His anger, and we do not perish.'
DBY: Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?Elohim
DRC: Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?
GNV: Who can tell if God will turne, and repent and turne away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?
JPS: Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?'
LXXE: Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

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.

WLC: מִֽי־יוֹדֵ֣עַ יָשׁ֔וּב וְנִחַ֖ם הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְשָׁ֛ב מֵחֲר֥וֹן אַפּ֖וֹ וְלֹ֥א נֹאבֵֽד׃
LXX-Br: τίς οἶδεν εἰ μετανοήσει ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ ἀποστρέψει ἐξ ὀργῆς θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα;

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