Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.

New American Standard Bible

I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

King James Version

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Holman Bible

I will make man scarcer than gold,
and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.

International Standard Version

I'll make people scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than gold from Ophir.

A Conservative Version

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

American Standard Version

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

Amplified


I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold,
And mankind [scarcer] than the pure gold of Ophir.

Bible in Basic English

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

Darby Translation

I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.

Julia Smith Translation

I will make a man precious above pure gold, and a man above the gold of Ophir.

King James 2000

I will make a man more rare than fine gold; even a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.

Modern King James verseion

I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir.

NET Bible

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

New Heart English Bible

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

The Emphasized Bible

I will cause, a man, to be more precious than fine gold, - Even a son of earth than, the finest gold of Ophir.

Webster

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

World English Bible

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will make a man
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

יקר 
Yaqar 
Usage: 11

פּז 
Paz 
Usage: 9

even a man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

כּתם 
Kethem 
Usage: 9

References

Context Readings

An Oracle Against Babylon

11 And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low. 12 I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger.

Cross References

Isaiah 4:1

And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, 'Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.

Job 28:16

It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire,

Psalm 137:9

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

Isaiah 13:15-18

Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.

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