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Job 5:27

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5:27Look, we have investigated this, so it is true.

Hear it,92 and apply it for your own93 good.”94

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Footnotes

  1. 92 To make a better parallelism, some commentators have replaced the imperative with another finite verb, “we have found it.”
  2. 93 The preposition with the suffix (referred to as the ethical dative) strengthens the imperative. An emphatic personal pronoun also precedes the imperative. The resulting force would be something like “and you had better apply it for your own good!”
  3. 94 With this the speech by Eliphaz comes to a close. His two mistakes with it are: (1) that the tone was too cold and (2) the argument did not fit Job’s case (see further, A. B. Davidson, Job, 42).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.

Hear, and know it for your good.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“We have examined this, and it is true.

So hear it and apply it to yourself.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

We have investigated this, and it is true!

Hear it and understand it for yourself.

NLTNew Living Translation

“We have studied life and found all this to be true.

Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Look, we have searched this out—it is true;

hear it and know it yourself.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;

Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.