Job 38:27 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
English ASV
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
English Amplified
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
English EASY 2024
The rain falls on dry ground where nothing grows. It causes grass to grow there again.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
The rain gives that dry empty land all the water it needs, and grass begins to grow.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up?
English God's Word - GW 1995
to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?
English KJV 1611
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
English LSB
To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the growth of grass to sprout?
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
to satisfy the desolate waste, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
To enrich the waste and desolate ground till the desert blooms with verdure?
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
They satisfy the needs of dry and empty lands. They make grass start growing there.
English NIV
to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
English NKJ 1982
To satisfy the desolate waste, And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?
English NLT
Who sends the rain that satisfies the parched ground and makes the tender grass spring up?
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
so that the parched and barren ground is satisfied with water and tender grass springs up?
English Tyndale 1537
to make the grass grow in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wilderness where no man remaineth?