Verse 6

Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For mange drømmer og tomme ord fører til intet. Men frykt Gud.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  La ikke din munn føre ditt legeme til synd, og ikke si foran engelen at det var en feil. Hvorfor skulle Gud bli vred over din stemme og ødelegge dine henders verk?

• Norsk King James

  La ikke munnen din få deg til å synde; si ikke at det var en feil: hvorfor skulle Gud bli sint på deg og ødelegge verket av hendene dine?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Som med mange drømmer, slik også med mange ord, er det tomhet; men frykt Gud.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For i mange drømmer, så vel som i tomme ord, er det forfengelighet. Men frykt Gud.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  La ikke din munn føre til at kroppen din synder, og si ikke foran engelen at det var en feil; hvorfor skulle Gud bli vred på din røst og ødelegge det arbeidet dine hender har gjort?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  La ikke din munn få din kropp til å synde, og si heller ikke til engelen at det var en feil. Hvorfor skulle Gud da bli sint på din stemme og ødelegge de verk du har skapt med dine hender?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  La ikke din munn føre til at kroppen din synder, og si ikke foran engelen at det var en feil; hvorfor skulle Gud bli vred på din røst og ødelegge det arbeidet dine hender har gjort?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For i mange drømmer, tomhet og mange ord, frykt Gud!

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore, fear God.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For i mengden av drømmer og tomme ord er det mange forfengeligheter. Frykt derfor Gud!

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi (ligesom) hvor mange Drømme ere, (der ere) og Forfængeligheder, (saa) og i mange Ord; men frygt Gud.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  La ikke din munn føre til at ditt legeme synder; og si ikke foran engelen at det var et feilgrep: hvorfor skulle Gud bli vred på din røst og ødelegge det du har arbeidet for?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  La ikke din munn føre deg til synd. Protester ikke foran budbringeren at det var en feil. Hvorfor skulle Gud bli vred på din stemme og ødelegge det arbeidet dine hender har gjort?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  La ikke munnen føre deg til synd, og si ikke til Guds budbærer at det var en feil. Hvorfor skal Gud bli sint på din stemme og ødelegge alt du har gjort?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  La ikke din munn føre til at ditt legeme synder; og si ikke foran engelen at det var en feil: hvorfor skulle Gud bli sint på din stemme og ødelegge dine henders verk?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For mye snakk kommer fra drømmer og formålsløse ting. Men la gudsfrykt være i deg.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Vse not thy mouth to cause yi flesh for to synne, yt thou saye not before the angell: my foolishnesse is in ye faute. For the God wil be angrie at thy voyce, and destroye all ye workes of thine handes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleshe for to sinne, neither say thou before the angell that it is thy ignoraunce: for then God wyll be angry at thy voyce, and destroy all the worke of thyne handes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it `is' an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell the priest,“It was a mistake!” Why make God angry at you so that he would destroy the work of your hands?”

Referenced Verses

• Mal 2:7 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
• Mal 3:1 : 1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
• Acts 7:30-35 : 30 And when forty years were complete, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, 32 Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look. 33 Then the Lord said to him, Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt. 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• 1 Cor 3:13-15 : 13 Each one's work will become clear: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.
• 1 Cor 11:10 : 10 For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.
• Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?
• Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
• Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
• 2 John 1:8 : 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
• Gen 48:16 : 16 The Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
• Lev 5:4-6 : 4 Or if a person swears, speaking falsely with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a person may pronounce with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he becomes aware of it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters. 5 And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing: 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
• Lev 27:9-9 : 9 And if it is a beast, of which men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he changes beast for beast, then both it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
• Num 15:25 : 25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
• Eccl 5:1-2 : 1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil. 2 Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God, for God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few.
• Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept and made supplication to him; he found him in Bethel, and there He spoke with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is His memorial.
• Hag 1:9-9 : 9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house. 10 Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
• Hag 2:14-17 : 14 Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: 16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 17 I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says the LORD.