^10:16Then³⁵ one who appeared to be a human being³⁶ was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir,³⁷ due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength. ^10:17How, sir, am I able to speak with you?³⁸ My strength is gone,³⁹ and I am breathless.” ^10:18Then the one who appeared to be a human being touched me again⁴⁰ and strengthened me.

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Footnotes

35 Heb “Behold.”
36 So most Hebrew ; one Hebrew along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”
37 Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.
38 Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”
39 Heb “does not stand.”
40 Heb “He added and touched me.” The construction is a verbal hendiadys.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength. How can my lord’s servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”

Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak. How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”

Again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Suddenly one with human likeness touched my lips. I opened my mouth and said to the one standing in front of me, “My lord, because of the vision, anguish overwhelms me and I am powerless. How can someone like me, your servant, speak with someone like you, my lord? Now I have no strength, and there is no breath in me.”

Then the one with a human appearance touched me again and strengthened me.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then the one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front of me, “I am filled with anguish because of the vision I have seen, my lord, and I am very weak. How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you, my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe.”

Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then look, there was one in the form of a human; he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I have not retained my strength. So how am I, a servant of my lord to speak with you, my lord, and I just now have no strength in me?”

And he again touched me, the one in the form of a human, and he strengthened me.

KJV 1900King James Version

And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,

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