Job 11 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 11:6
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Chapter 11
Zophar calls for repentance before unsearchable wisdom
Source chapters: [BHS11] Hebrew; [LXX11] Greek.
Verse 11:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:1 Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:1 Then Zophar the Minaean replied:
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The distinct local or ethnic designations are retained, as at 2:11.
Verse 11:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:2 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,
and should a man of many lips be declared right?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:2 “The one who says much will hear an answer in return.
Does an eloquent person also think himself righteous?
Blessed is the one born of woman who lives a short life.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds the striking beatitude about short life; it is retained without deleting or explaining away the statement.
Verse 11:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:3 Will your empty talk silence people?
Will you mock, with no one putting you to shame?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:3 Do not become profuse in words,
for there is no one to contend with you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek gives a warning and a statement that no one contends; Hebrew challenges whether his speech will silence others.
Verse 11:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:4 You say, ‘My teaching is pure,
and I am clean in Your eyes.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:4 For do not say, ‘I am pure in my works
and blameless before Him.’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek works differ from Hebrew teaching; the prohibitive quotation is addressed to Job, and God is third person in Greek.
Verse 11:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:5 But if only God would speak
and open His lips with you,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:5 But how might the Lord speak to you?
He will open His lips with you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek phrases the wish as a how question followed by a future assertion; the marked second clause is retained.
Verse 11:6 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:6 and tell you the hidden things of wisdom,
for sound wisdom is twofold!
Know that God overlooks some of your guilt.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:6 Then He will tell you the power of wisdom,
for it will be twice what you have.
Then you will know that what has come to you from the Lord is worthy of the sins you committed.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew overlooks some guilt differs from Greek suffering matching committed sins. The Greek double clause is difficult: it is provisionally related to the disclosed wisdom, but its precise subject and comparison remain open. Hebrew’s twofold wisdom is also unexplained rather than expanded.
Verse 11:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:7 Can you discover God by searching,
or reach the full extent of Shaddai?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:7 Will you find a trace of the Lord,
or have you reached the furthest things the Almighty made?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek a trace and the extremities of created works differ from Hebrew searching and the extent of Shaddai.
Verse 11:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:8 Higher than heaven—what can you do?
Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:8 Heaven is high—what will you do?
What do you know of things deeper than those in Hades,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek develops a question about deeper things and continues the comparison into 11:9.
Verse 11:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:9 Its measure is longer than earth
and broader than sea.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:9 or longer than the measure of earth,
or than the breadth of the sea?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew states the dimensions; Greek continues the preceding question.
Verse 11:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:10 If He passes through, imprisons, and convenes an assembly,
who can turn Him back?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:10 If He overturns everything,
who will say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek destruction of everything and a challenge to question differ from Hebrew passing, imprisonment and assembly.
Verse 11:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:11 For He knows worthless people;
He sees wrongdoing—will He not consider it?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:11 For He knows the works of the lawless;
when He sees improper things, He will not overlook them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew not consider is provisionally a rhetorical question; Greek clearly asserts that wrongdoing will not be overlooked.
Verse 11:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:12 An empty-headed man will gain a heart
when a wild donkey’s colt is born human.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:12 But a person vainly swims in words;
a mortal born of woman is like a donkey of the wilderness.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew is provisionally an ironic impossibility comparison, with when supplying the relation of its two clauses; a positive taming or gaining-understanding reading remains possible. Greek has swimming in words and an explicit woman-born mortal.
Verse 11:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:13 If you prepare your heart
and spread out your hands to Him,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:13 For if you make your heart pure
and turn your hands upward toward Him,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek specifies purity and the upward palms; Hebrew preparation and spreading agree in prayer context.
Verse 11:14 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:14 if wrongdoing is in your hand, put it far away,
and do not let injustice dwell in your tents,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:14 if anything lawless is in your hands, put it far from you,
and let injustice not lodge in your dwelling.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both require removing wrongdoing from hand and dwelling.
Verse 11:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:15 then you will lift your face free from blemish;
you will stand firm and not fear.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:15 For then your face will shine like pure water;
you will take off filth and will not fear.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek shining water and removal of filth differ from Hebrew lifted face and firmness.
Verse 11:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:16 For you will forget trouble;
you will remember it like waters that have passed away.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:16 You will forget toil like a wave that has passed,
and you will not be terrified.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The passing-water image agrees; Greek adds the removal of terror.
Verse 11:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:17 Your life will rise brighter than noon;
its darkness will be like morning.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:17 Your prayer will be like the morning star,
and from noon life will rise for you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek prayer and morning star differ from Hebrew life and morning-like darkness. The Hebrew’s difficult ta‘ufah is provisionally darkness.
Verse 11:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:18 You will be confident, for there is hope;
you will search about and lie down safely.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:18 You will be confident, for you have hope;
out of anxiety and care, peace will appear to you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek emerging peace replaces the Hebrew inspecting or digging about and safe rest. The rare Hebrew verb’s local sense remains open.
Verse 11:19 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:19 You will lie down, with no one to frighten you,
and many will seek your favor.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:19 For you will be quiet, and no one will wage war against you;
many will change their ways and entreat you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly names warfare and a change by those seeking help.
Verse 11:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail;
escape will be lost to them,
and their hope will be the breathing out of life.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:20 But deliverance will abandon them,
for their hope is destruction,
and the eyes of the ungodly will waste away.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek reorders the failing-eyes clause to the end and uses destruction where Hebrew describes the last breath; all clauses remain within the same source verse.