Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

New American Standard Bible

“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasures.

King James Version

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Holman Bible

If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.

International Standard Version

If they listen and serve him, they'll finish their lives in prosperity and their years will be pleasant.

A Conservative Version

If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

American Standard Version

If they hearken and serve him , They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

Amplified


“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasantness and joy.

Bible in Basic English

If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

Darby Translation

If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Julia Smith Translation

If they will hear and will serve him, they shall finish their days in good, and their years in delights.

King James 2000

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If they listen and serve [him], they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

Modern King James verseion

If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

NET Bible

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

New Heart English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

The Emphasized Bible

If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

Webster

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

World English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and serve
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and their years
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

10 And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity. 11 If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness. 12 And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:30

in distress being to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;

Job 11:13-19

If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

Job 21:11

They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

Job 22:21

Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good.

Job 22:23

If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.

Job 42:12

And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Ecclesiastes 9:2-3

The whole is as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as is the good, so is the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

Isaiah 1:19

If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

Jeremiah 26:13

And now, amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah doth repent concerning the evil that He hath spoken against you.

Romans 6:17

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

James 5:5

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

Revelation 18:7

'As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

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