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Job 12:8

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12:8Or speak19 to the earth20 and it will teach you,

or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

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  1. 19 The word in the means “to complain,” not simply “to speak,” and one would expect animals as the object here in parallel to the last verse. So several commentators have replaced the word with words for animals or reptiles—totally different words (cf. , “reptiles”). The and have here the word “plants” (see 30:4, 7; and Gen 21:15).
  2. 20 A. B. Davidson (Job, 90) offers a solution by taking “earth” to mean all the lower forms of life that teem in the earth (a metonymy of subject).

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;

and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,

or let the fish in the sea inform you.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you;

let the fish of the sea inform you.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you.

Let the fish in the sea speak to you.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

or ask the earth, and it will teach you,

and the fishes of the sea will declare to you.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:

And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

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