Job 38:21

NETBible

You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

NIV ©

Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

NASB ©

"You know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great!

NLT ©

But of course you know all this! For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced!

MSG ©

Why, of [course] you know that. You've known them all your life, grown up in the same neighborhood with them!

BBE ©

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

NRSV ©

Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

NKJV ©

Do you know it , because you were born then, Or because the number of your days is great?


KJV
Knowest
<03045> (8804)
thou [it], because thou wast then born
<03205> (8735)_?
or [because] the number
<04557>
of thy days
<03117>
[is] great
<07227>_?
NASB ©

"You know
<3045>
, for you were born
<3205>
then
<227>
, And the number
<4557>
of your days
<3117>
is great
<7227>
!
LXXM
oida {V-RAI-1S} ara
<685> 
PRT
oti
<3754> 
CONJ
tote
<5119> 
ADV
gegennhsai
<1080> 
V-RMI-2S
ariymov
<706> 
N-NSM
de
<1161> 
PRT
etwn
<2094> 
N-GPN
sou
<4771> 
P-GS
poluv
<4183> 
A-NSM
NET [draft] ITL
You know
<03045>
, for
<03588>
you were born
<03205>
before
<0227>
them; and the number
<04557>
of your days
<03117>
is great
<07227>
!
HEBREW
Mybr
<07227>
Kymy
<03117>
rpomw
<04557>
dlwt
<03205>
za
<0227>
yk
<03588>
tedy (38:21)
<03045>

NETBible

You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

NET Notes

tn The imperfect verb after the adverb אָז (’az, “then”) functions as a preterite: “you were born.” The line is sarcastic.