Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.

New American Standard Bible

“They are dismayed, they no longer answer;
Words have failed them.

King James Version

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

Holman Bible

Job’s friends are dismayed and can no longer answer;
words have left them.

International Standard Version

"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

A Conservative Version

They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say.

American Standard Version

They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

Amplified


“They (Job’s friends) are dismayed and embarrassed, they no longer answer;
The words have moved away and failed them,” [says Elihu].

Bible in Basic English

Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.

Darby Translation

They were amazed, they answered no more; words failed them.

Julia Smith Translation

They were confounded; they answered no more: they removed words from themselves.

King James 2000

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"They are dismayed; they no longer answer; {they have nothing to say}.

Modern King James verseion

They are broken; they answer no more; words have left them.

NET Bible

"They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

New Heart English Bible

"They are amazed. They answer no more. They do not have a word to say.

The Emphasized Bible

They were dismayed, they responded no more, they suffered speech to forsake them;

Webster

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

World English Bible

"They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.

Youngs Literal Translation

(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 9

Context Readings

Elihu Rebukes Job And His Three Friends

14 Nevertheless, seeing he hath not spoken unto me, therefore will not I answer him as ye have done." 15 For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word. 16 "But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:



Cross References

Job 6:24-25

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.

Job 29:22

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

Matthew 7:23

And then will I knowledge unto them, that I never knew them: 'Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.'

Matthew 22:22

When they heard that, they marveled, and left him and went their way.

Matthew 22:26

Likewise the second and the third, unto the seventh:

Matthew 22:34

When the Pharisees had heard, how that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they drew together,

Matthew 22:46

And none of them could answer him again one word. Neither durst any from that day forth, ask him any more questions.

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