Job 41:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words?

New Living Translation
Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?

English Standard Version
Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

Berean Study Bible
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

New American Standard Bible
“Will he make many pleas to you, Or will he speak to you gentle words?

NASB 1995
"Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?

NASB 1977
“Will he make many supplications to you? Or will he speak to you soft words?

Amplified Bible
“Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]? Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?

Christian Standard Bible
Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?

Contemporary English Version
Will it beg for mercy?

Good News Translation
Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Will it plead with you for mercy or speak tenderly to you?

International Standard Version
Will he make many supplications to you, or will he beg you for mercy?

NET Bible
Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

New King James Version
Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?

King James 2000 Bible
Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?

New Heart English Bible
Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

World English Bible
Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

American King James Version
Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you?

American Standard Version
Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

A Faithful Version
Will he multiply pleas for help to you? Will he speak soft words to you?

Darby Bible Translation
Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?

English Revised Version
Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?

Webster's Bible Translation
Will he make many supplications to thee? will he speak soft words to thee?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
(40:22) Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(40:27) Wyl he make many faire wordes with thee thinkest thou or flatter thee?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Wyll he make many fayre wordes with the (thynkest thou) or flatre the:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

Smith's Literal Translation
Will he multiply supplications to thee? will he speak soft things to thee?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And if he begs much from you and speaks to you tenderly

Lamsa Bible
Will he make many supplications to you? Or will he speak flattering words to you?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
















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