Translation Comparison
Job 38
Septuagint (Brenton, 1851) 38 compared with King James Version 38
Listen & follow along
Today's reading with verse-by-verse highlighting
This Book Has Restored Content
The LXX Job is roughly 1/6 shorter with significant differences in the speeches.
View
Septuagint (Brenton, 1851)
Authoritative text
King James Version
Masoretic-derived · highlighted where altered
1And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwindand clouds, [saying],
1Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner -stone upon it?
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forthout of its mother's womb.
8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10And I set bounds to it , surrounding it with bars and gates.
10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;
12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
14It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
17And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
19And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20If thou couldest bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;
20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
21I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.
21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
22But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?
22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23And is there a store [of them], for thee against the time of [thine] enemies, for the day of wars and battle ?
23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?