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Job 33:27

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33:27That person sings47 to others,48 saying:

‘I have sinned and falsified what is right,

but I was not punished according to what I deserved.49

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  1. 47 The verb יָשֹׁר (yashor) is unusual. The typical view is to change it to יָשִׁיר (yashir, “he sings”), but that may seem out of harmony with a confession. Dhorme suggests a root שׁוּר (shur, “to repeat”), but this is a doubtful root. J. Reider reads it יָשֵׁיר (yasher) and links it to an Arabic word “confesses” ( 24 [1953]: 275).
  2. 48 Heb “to men.”
  3. 49 The verb שָׁוָה (shavah) has the impersonal meaning here, “it has not been requited to me.” The meaning is that the sinner has not been treated in accordance with his deeds: “I was not punished according to what I deserved.”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

He sings before men and says:

‘I sinned and perverted what was right,

and it was not repaid to me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And they will go to others and say,

‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right,

but I did not get what I deserved.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He will look at men and say,

“I have sinned and perverted what was right;

yet I did not get what I deserved.

NLTNew Living Translation

He will declare to his friends,

‘I sinned and twisted the truth,

but it was not worth it.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“He will sing to men, and he will say,

‘I have sinned and have perverted what is right,

and it was not paid back to me.

KJV 1900King James Version

He looketh upon men, and if any say,

I have sinned, and perverted that which was right,

And it profited me not;