Job 35 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 35
Human conduct and unanswered cries
Source chapters: [BHS35] Hebrew; [LXX35] Greek.
Verse 35:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:1 Elihu answered and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:1 Then Elihu replied:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both introduce another speech.
Verse 35:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:2 “Do you consider this just?
You say, ‘My righteousness exceeds God’s.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:2 “Why have you reckoned this as judgment?
Who are you to say, ‘I am righteous before the Lord’?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew comparative from or more than God is provisionally exceeds; Greek has before the Lord and adds Who are you.
Verse 35:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:3 For you say, ‘What benefit is it to you?
What do I gain beyond my sin?’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:3 Or will you say, ‘What will I do if I sin?’
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek shortens the two Hebrew benefit questions into one question about sinning. Hebrew abruptly shifts you to I.
Verse 35:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:4 I will answer you with words,
and your friends with you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:4 I will give you an answer,
and your three friends.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly numbers the friends as three.
Verse 35:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:5 Look at the heavens and see;
behold the clouds, high above you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:5 Look up into heaven and see;
observe the clouds, how high they are above you.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both direct attention to the heights.
Verse 35:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:6 If you sin, what do you do to Him?
If your transgressions multiply, what do you accomplish against Him?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:6 If you sinned, what will you accomplish?
If you also acted lawlessly many times, what can you do?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek leaves the divine recipient of the actions unexpressed.
Verse 35:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him,
or what does He receive from your hand?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:7 Since, then, you are righteous, what will you give Him,
or what will He receive from your hand?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek since frames righteousness as the interlocutor’s claimed premise; Hebrew is conditional.
Verse 35:8 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:8 Your wickedness affects a man like you,
and your righteousness a son of humanity.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:8 Your ungodliness is for a man like you,
and your righteousness for a son of humanity.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both direct human wrongdoing and righteousness toward fellow humans.
Verse 35:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:9 Because of abundant oppressions they cry out;
they cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:9 Those oppressed by a multitude will cry out;
they will shout because of the arm of many.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek multitude and many differ from Hebrew abundant oppression and powerful persons.
Verse 35:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:10 Yet he did not say, ‘Where is God who made me,
who appoints watches of the night,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek night watches replace Hebrew night songs; Greek subject is singular he.
Verse 35:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:11 who distinguishes me from the four-footed beasts of earth
and from the birds of heaven?’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek distinction of an individual differs from Hebrew collective superiority in teaching and wisdom.
Verse 35:12 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:12 There they cry out, but He does not answer,
because of the pride of evil people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:12 There they will cry out, and He will certainly not hear,
also because of the insolence of evil people.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both link unanswered cries with wicked pride.
Verse 35:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:13 Surely God does not hear emptiness,
and Shaddai does not regard it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:13 For the Lord does not wish to see improper things;
for the Almighty Himself observes
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek unwillingness to see impropriety replaces Hebrew not hearing emptiness; the next Greek verse completes what He observes.
Verse 35:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:14 Even though you say you do not see Him,
the case is before Him, and you must wait for Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:14 those who carry through lawless things, and He will save me.
Enter into judgment before Him,
if you can praise Him as He is.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek divine observation of evildoers, first-person salvation and a challenge to praise differ from Hebrew waiting for an unseen God to judge the case.
Verse 35:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:15 And now, because His anger has not punished,
and He has not taken much notice of excess,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:15 And now, because He is not examining His anger
and has not taken much notice of a transgression,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both clauses are difficult. Hebrew pas is provisionally excess or arrogance; Greek’s anger is accusative, here provisionally the object of examining rather than silently converted into in anger. The Greek syntax and subject need specialist review.
Verse 35:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
35:16 Job opens his mouth in emptiness
and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
35:16 Job vainly opens his mouth
and weighs down words in ignorance.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek burdening or weighting words differs from Hebrew multiplying them.