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Job 27:12

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27:12If you yourselves have all seen this,

Why in the world22 do you continue this meaningless talk?23

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Footnotes

  1. 22 The interrogative uses the demonstrative pronoun in its emphatic position: “Why in the world …?” ( §17.4.3c).
  2. 23 The text has the noun “vain thing; breath; vapor,” and then a denominative verb from the same root: “to become vain with a vain thing,” or “to do in vain a vain thing.” This is an example of the internal object, or a cognate accusative (see §117.q). The has “you all know that you are adding vanity to vanity.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;

why then have you become altogether vain?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You have all seen this yourselves.

Why then this meaningless talk?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

All of you have seen this for yourselves,

why do you keep up this empty talk?

NLTNew Living Translation

But you have seen all this,

yet you say all these useless things to me.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Look, you all have seen,

and why in the world have you become altogether vain?

KJV 1900King James Version

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;

Why then are ye thus altogether vain?