Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’ New Living Translation But when it is uprooted, it’s as though it never existed! English Standard Version If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ Berean Standard Bible If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ King James Bible If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. New King James Version If he is destroyed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ New American Standard Bible “If he is removed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ NASB 1995 “If he is removed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ NASB 1977 “If he is removed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ Legacy Standard Bible If He swallows him up from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ Amplified Bible “If he is snatched from his place [in the garden], Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ Christian Standard Bible If he is uprooted from his place, it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.” Holman Christian Standard Bible If he is uprooted from his place, it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.” American Standard Version If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Aramaic Bible in Plain English If they uproot him from his place, and he will lie to him and shall say to him: “I did not see you” Brenton Septuagint Translation If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things, Contemporary English Version But once they are pulled up, they have no more place; Douay-Rheims Bible If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. English Revised Version If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. GOD'S WORD® Translation But when it is uprooted from its place, [the ground] denies it [and says], 'I never saw you!' Good News Translation But then pull them up--no one will ever know they were there. International Standard Version If he is uprooted from his place, then it will deny him: 'I never saw you.' JPS Tanakh 1917 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him: 'I have not seen thee.' Literal Standard Version If [one] destroys him from his place, | Then it has feigned concerning him, | I have not seen you! Majority Standard Bible If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ New American Bible Yet if one tears him from his place, it will disown him: “I have never seen you!” NET Bible If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, 'I have never seen you!' New Revised Standard Version If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ New Heart English Bible If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' Webster's Bible Translation If he shall destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. World English Bible If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ Young's Literal Translation If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Bildad: Job Should Repent…17His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones. 18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ 19Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.… Cross References Job 7:8 The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. Job 7:10 He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more. Job 8:17 His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones. Job 20:7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, 'Where is he?' Job 20:9 The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him. Psalm 103:16 when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more. Treasury of Scripture If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you. he Job 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. Job 20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. Psalm 37:10,36 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be… Jump to Previous Deny Destroy Destroyed Disowns Feigned Removed Spot TornJump to Next Deny Destroy Destroyed Disowns Feigned Removed Spot TornJob 8 1. Bildad shows God's justice in dealing with men according to their works.8. He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite. 20. He applies God's just dealing to Job. Verse 18. - If he destroy him from his place; or, if he be destroyed. The verb seems to be best taken as impersonal. If he be destroyed in any way, suddenly or gradually, by a Divine stroke, or by human agency, or by the comparatively slow process of nature, in any case the result is one, the flourishing plant is clean swept away, and the place of it knows it no more. Bildad's words are very dramatic and expressive. Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. The place shall be ashamed of having ever nurtured anything so vile, and shall declare that it never held such a growth. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not he is uprooted יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּ (yə·ḇal·lə·‘en·nū) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf from his place, מִמְּקוֹמ֑וֹ (mim·mə·qō·w·mōw) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition it will disown וְכִ֥חֶשׁ (wə·ḵi·ḥeš) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3584: To disappoint, deceive, fail, grow lean him, בּ֝֗וֹ (bōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew saying, ‘I never לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no saw you.’ רְאִיתִֽיךָ׃ (rə·’î·ṯî·ḵā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see Links Job 8:18 NIVJob 8:18 NLT Job 8:18 ESV Job 8:18 NASB Job 8:18 KJV Job 8:18 BibleApps.com Job 8:18 Biblia Paralela Job 8:18 Chinese Bible Job 8:18 French Bible Job 8:18 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 8:18 If he is destroyed from his place (Jb) |