Verse 5

And it was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Når festene var over, sendte Job bud for å renvaske dem. Han sto tidlig opp om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for hver enkelt av dem, for han tenkte: 'Kanskje sønnene mine har syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte.' Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Og når dagene med gilde var over, sendte Job og helliget dem. Han sto opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer etter antallet av dem alle. For Job sa: Kanskje mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sine hjerter. Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Norsk King James

  Og det skjedde at når dagene for deres festing var over, sendte Job bud til dem og renset dem; han sto tidlig opp om morgenen og ofret brennoffer etter antallet av dem alle; for Job sa: Det kan hende at sønnene mine har syndet og forbannet Gud i hjertene sine. Slik gjorde Job stadig.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Når festdagene var over, sendte Job bud etter dem og renset dem. Han stod tidlig opp om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for hver av dem, for Job tenkte: «Kanskje har barna mine syndet og forbandet Gud i sitt hjerte.» Dette gjorde Job hver gang.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Når dagene for festmåltidene gikk over, pleide Job å sende bud etter dem for å hellige dem. Han sto opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer etter antall av dem alle. For Job tenkte: 'Kanskje har mine barn syndet og forbannet Gud i sine hjerter.' Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Når gjestebuddagene var over, sendte Job bud etter dem og helliget dem. Han stod opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for dem alle, for Job sa: Kanskje mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte. Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Da festlighetene nærmet seg slutten, sendte Job bud for å hellige dem, og han sto opp tidlig om morgenen for å ofre brennoffer for hver enkelt av dem. For han tenkte: 'Kanskje har mine sønner syndet og forbanet Gud i sitt hjerte.' Slik handlet Job hele tiden.

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

  Når gjestebuddagene var over, sendte Job bud etter dem og helliget dem. Han stod opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for dem alle, for Job sa: Kanskje mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte. Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Når festen var slutt, sendte Job bud etter dem for å hellige dem; han sto opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for dem alle, for Job tenkte: «Kanskje har mine barn syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte.» Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and consecrate them. Rising early in the morning, he would offer burnt offerings for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' Job did this regularly.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hver gang dagene med festing var over, sendte Job bud etter dem og helliget dem. Han sto opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for dem alle, for Job tenkte: «Kanskje har mine sønner syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte.» Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og det skede, naar Gjæstebudsdagene vare omme, da sendte Job hen og helligede dem, og stod aarle op om Morgenen og offrede Brændoffere efter deres alles Tal; thi Job sagde: Maaskee mine Sønner have syndet og bandet Gud i deres Hjerte; saaledes gjorde Job alle de Dage.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did continually.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Når festdagene var over, sendte Job bud etter dem og helliget dem. Han stod opp tidlig om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for hver av dem, for Job tenkte: Det kan hende at mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sine hjerter. Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Når dagene med festen var over, sendte Job etter dem og helliget dem, og han stod tidlig opp om morgenen og ofret brennoffer etter antallet av dem alle. For Job sa: "Det kan være at mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte." Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Når festdagene var over, pleide Job å sende bud etter dem for å hellige dem. Han stod tidlig opp og brakte brennoffer for dem alle, for Job sa: 'Kanskje mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sine hjerter.' Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Når dagene med festing var over, sendte Job etter dem og renset dem; han stod tidlig opp om morgenen og ofret brennoffer for hver enkelt av dem. For Job sa: Kanskje mine sønner har syndet og forbannet Gud i sitt hjerte. Slik gjorde Job alltid.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og etter festdagene sendte Job bud etter dem for å gjøre dem rene. Tidlig om morgenen ofret han brennoffer for dem alle, for Job sa: Kanskje har mine sønner syndet og forbannet Gud i sine hjerter. Job gjorde dette hver gang festene var over.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  So when they had passed ouer the tyme of their banckettinge rounde aboute, Iob sent for them, and clensed them agayne, stode vp early, and offred for euery one a bretofferinge. For Iob thought thus: peraduenture my sonnes haue done some offence, and haue bene vnthankfull to God in their hertes. And thus dyd Iob euery daye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, & blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob euery day.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And when the dayes of their banquetting were gone about, Iob sent and sanctified them, and gat vp early and offered for euery one a burnt offring: For Iob saide, It may be that my sonnes haue done some offence, & haue ben vnthankfull to God in their heartes. Thus did Iob euery day.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

• World English Bible (2000)

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought,“Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 8:20 : 20 And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• Job 42:8 : 8 Therefore take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your foolishness, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
• 1 Sam 16:5 : 5 And he said, Peaceably: I have come to sacrifice to the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
• 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And set two men, worthless fellows, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him, that he may die.
• 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
• Gen 35:2-3 : 2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your clothes: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
• Exod 18:12 : 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
• Exod 19:10 : 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,
• Exod 24:5 : 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.
• Lev 1:3-6 : 3 If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 And he shall kill the bull before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around upon the altar that is by the door of the tent of meeting. 6 And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.
• Lev 24:10-16 : 10 And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel, and this son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel fought together in the camp; 11 And the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD and cursed. And they brought him to Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 12 And they put him in custody, so the decision of the LORD might be shown to them. 13 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14 Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. 16 And he who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the stranger as well as the one born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
• 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be your name:
• Gen 22:3 : 3 And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
• Neh 12:30 : 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
• Job 1:11 : 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face."
• Job 2:9 : 9 Then his wife said to him, Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God, and die.
• Job 8:4 : 4 If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;
• Job 27:10 : 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
• Job 41:25 : 25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of the crashing they are beside themselves.
• Ps 5:3 : 3 In the morning, O LORD, you shall hear my voice; in the morning, I will direct my prayer to you, and will look up.
• Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
• Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
• Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.
• Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
• Luke 1:75 : 75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them?
• John 11:55 : 55 And the Jews' Passover was near at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
• Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
• Acts 21:26 : 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself with them, entered into the temple, to announce the fulfillment of the days of purification, at the end of which an offering should be made for each of them.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts; and then each person will receive praise from God.
• 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
• Eph 6:18 : 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;
• Gen 6:5 : 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.