Verse 28

They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  De er blitt fete og glatte; likevel avviser de rettferdighet. Saken til de farløse dømmer de ikke, slik at de kan oppnå fremgang; de forsvarer ikke de fattiges rett.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  De er blitt fete, de stråler: ja, de overgår de ugudeliges handlinger: de dømmer ikke saken, de dømmer ikke saken til den farløse, likevel lykkes de; og den fattiges rett dømmer de ikke.

• Norsk King James

  De er blitt fete; ja, de overgår de onde i sine gjerninger; de dømmer ikke saken for farløse, men de trives; og retten for de trengende dømmer de ikke.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  De er blitt fete og blanke, og de overgår de onde handlingene. De fører ikke den faderløses sak, og har likevel lykke. De hjelper ikke de fattige til rett.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  De har blitt fete og glatte, for de overgår selv de ondeste. De dømmer ikke rettferdig saken til de farløse, likevel har de fremgang. De forsømmer de fattiges rett.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  De er blitt fete, de skinner: ja, de overgår de ugudeliges gjerninger: de dømmer ikke saken, saken til de farløse, likevel trives de; og den trengendes rett dømmer de ikke.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  De har blitt fete og prangende; ja, de overgår de onde gjerningene, men de dømmer ikke den foreldreløses sak, de trives, og de gir ikke den nødstedtes rett.

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

  De er blitt fete, de skinner: ja, de overgår de ugudeliges gjerninger: de dømmer ikke saken, saken til de farløse, likevel trives de; og den trengendes rett dømmer de ikke.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  fete og frodige. De overgår seg selv i ondskap. De forsvarer ikke saken til de farløse for å gi dem fremgang, og de tar ikke rettferdig sak for de fattige.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  De har blitt fete og glinsende; de er også oversvømt av ondskap. De forsvarer ikke den farløse, så han får fremgang, og de hjelper ikke de fattige til rettferdighet.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  De ere blevne fede (og) glindse, de overgik ogsaa en Onds Handeler; de udførte ingen Sag, (ja ikke) den Faderløses Sag, og havde (dog) Lykke, og de skaffede ikke de Fattige Ret.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  De har blitt fete, de stråler: ja, de overstiger de ondes gjerninger: de forsvarer ikke de farløses rett, men likevel lykkes de; de forsvarer ikke den trengendes rett.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  De er blitt fete, de skinner: ja, de overgår i ugjerninger; de har ikke forsvart de farløses sak, slik at de kunne lykkes; og de trengendes rett dømmer de ikke.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  De er blitt fete, de stråler, ja, de har overgått onde gjerninger, de dømmer ikke rett for de farløse, men de lykkes, og de fattiges sak avgjør de ikke.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  De er blitt fete, de skinner: ja, de overgår i ondskapens gjerninger; de forsvarer ikke saken, saken til de farløse, for at de skal få fremgang; og de dømmer ikke de fattiges rett.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  De har blitt fete og sterke: de har gått langt i onde gjerninger: de gir ingen støtte til farløses sak, så de kan gjøre det godt; de ser ikke til at den fattige mannen får sine rettigheter.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  herof are they fat and welthy, and are runne awaye fro me with shamefull blasphemies. They ministre not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesses cause, they iudge not the poore acordinge to equite.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Hereof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischieuous then any other: they minister not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea and they prosper: yet they iudge not the poore according to equitie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

• World English Bible (2000)

  They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
• Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
• Zech 7:10 : 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.
• Ps 73:12 : 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
• Jer 7:6 : 6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;
• Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?
• Jer 22:15-19 : 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD. 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it. 18 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
• Ezek 5:6-7 : 6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, nor done according to the judgments of the nations around you;
• Ezek 16:47-52 : 47 Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the Lord GOD, neither has your sister Sodom and her daughters done anything as you have done, you and your daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit. 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done. 52 You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they; they are more righteous than you; yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'
• 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife.
• Jas 5:4-5 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
• Ps 82:2-4 : 2 How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 119:70 : 70 Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in Your law.
• Jer 2:33 : 33 Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.
• Job 12:6 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
• Job 15:27-28 : 27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes collops of fat on his flanks. 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
• Job 21:23-24 : 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 24 His sides are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
• Job 29:12-14 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper. 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a crown.
• Ps 72:4 : 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush the oppressor.
• Ps 73:6-7 : 6 Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.