Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

New American Standard Bible

If I have looked at the sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,

King James Version

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

Holman Bible

if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining
or at the moon moving in splendor,

International Standard Version

if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,

A Conservative Version

if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

American Standard Version

If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

Amplified


If I beheld the sun [as an object of worship] when it shone
Or the moon going in its splendor,

Bible in Basic English

If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

Darby Translation

If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

Julia Smith Translation

If I shall see the light when it shall shine, and the moon going in splendor;

King James 2000

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in brightness;

Lexham Expanded Bible

if I looked at [the] sun when it shone or [at the] moon moving [in] splendor,

Modern King James verseion

if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

NET Bible

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

New Heart English Bible

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

The Emphasized Bible

If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;

Webster

If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

World English Bible

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I beheld
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

the sun
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

or the moon
ירח 
Yareach 
Usage: 26

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

References

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

25 If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, 26 If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, 27 And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,


Cross References

Ezekiel 8:16

And He bringeth me in unto the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and lo, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward, and they are bowing themselves eastward to the sun.

Deuteronomy 4:19

'And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

Deuteronomy 17:3

and he doth go and serve other gods, and doth bow himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded --

2 Kings 23:5

And he hath caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah have appointed, (and they make perfume in high places, in cities of Judah and suburbs of Jerusalem,) and those making perfume to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the heavens.

2 Kings 23:11

And he causeth to cease the horses that the kings of Judah have given to the sun from the entering in of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, that is in the suburbs, and the chariots of the sun he hath burnt with fire.

Jeremiah 44:17

for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and -- we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.

Genesis 1:16-18

And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

Deuteronomy 11:16

'Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

Psalm 8:3-4

For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

Jeremiah 8:2

And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.

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