Parallel Verses

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,

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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 have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;
26 If I have looked at the sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,
27 And my heart became secretly enticed,
And my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,


Cross References

Ezekiel 8:16

Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

2 Kings 23:5

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.

2 Kings 23:11

He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

Jeremiah 44:17

But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.

Genesis 1:16-18

God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

Psalm 8:3-4

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

Jeremiah 8:2

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

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