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Job 31:14-16
New English Translation
Job 31:14-16
New English Translation
14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment;[a]
when he intervenes,[b]
how will I respond to him?
15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them?[c]
Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,[d]
or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Footnotes
- Job 31:14 tn Heb “arises.” The LXX reads “takes vengeance,” an interpretation that is somewhat correct but unnecessary. The verb “to rise” would mean “to confront in judgment.”
- Job 31:14 tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” but with God as the subject it means any divine intervention for blessing or cursing, anything God does that changes a person’s life. Here it is “visit to judge.”
- Job 31:15 tn Heb “him,” but the plural pronoun has been used in the translation to indicate that the referent is the servants mentioned in v. 13 (since the previous “him” in v. 14 refers to God).
- Job 31:16 tn Heb “kept the poor from [their] desire.”
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