Job 37:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

New Living Translation
We cannot look at the sun, for it shines brightly in the sky when the wind clears away the clouds.

English Standard Version
“And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

Berean Study Bible
Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

New American Standard Bible
“Now people do not see the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind has passed and cleared them.

NASB 1995
"Now men do not see the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind has passed and cleared them.

NASB 1977
“And now men do not see the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind has passed and cleared them.

Amplified Bible
“Now people cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies [without being blinded], When the wind has passed and cleared them.

Christian Standard Bible
Now no one can even look at the sun after a wind has swept through and cleared the sky.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now men cannot even look at the sun when it is in the skies, after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

Contemporary English Version
No one can stare at the sun after a breeze has blown the clouds from the sky.

Good News Translation
And now the light in the sky is dazzling, too bright for us to look at it; and the sky has been swept clean by the wind.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
People can't look at the sun when it's bright among the clouds or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.

International Standard Version
"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not?

NET Bible
But now, the sun cannot be looked at--it is bright in the skies--after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

New King James Version
Even now men cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies, When the wind has passed and cleared them.

King James 2000 Bible
And now men can not look on the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and clears them.

New Heart English Bible
Now men do not see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

World English Bible
Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

American King James Version
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleans them.

American Standard Version
And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passeth, and cleareth them.

A Faithful Version
And now men cannot see the bright light in the skies, covered by the clouds; but the wind blows and clears them away.

Darby Bible Translation
And now [men] see not the light as it gleameth, it is [hidden] in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

English Revised Version
And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And nowe men see not the light, which shineth in the cloudes, but the winde passeth and clenseth them.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For men see not the light that shineth in the cloudes: but the winde passeth and cleanseth them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For euery ma seith not the light, yt he kepeth cleare in the cloudes, which he clenseth whan he maketh the wynde to blowe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And now, they have not seen the light, "" It [is] bright in the clouds, "" And the wind has passed by and cleanses them.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it is in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.

Smith's Literal Translation
And now they saw not the bright light that is in the clouds: and the wind passed over and it will cleanse them.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But now they see not the light : the air on a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Although they do not see the light, the air will be thickened suddenly into clouds, and the wind, passing by, will drive them away.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And now they do not see the light; it is illuminated in the sky of Heaven, and the Spirit will pass and purify them

Lamsa Bible
And now men cannot see the light which shines in the sky; but the wind passes and cleanses it.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But the light is not visible to all: it shines afar off in the heavens, as that which is from him in the clouds.
















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