Job 12:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.

New Living Translation
Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you. Let the fish in the sea speak to you.

English Standard Version
or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

Berean Study Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

New American Standard Bible
“Or speak to the earth, and have it teach you; And have the fish of the sea tell you.

NASB 1995
"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

NASB 1977
“Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

Amplified Bible
Or speak to the earth [with its many forms of life], and it will teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare [this truth] to you.

Christian Standard Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Contemporary English Version
the flowers and the fish.

Good News Translation
ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Or speak with the earth, and it will teach you. Even the fish will relate [the story] to you.

International Standard Version
Or ask the green plants of the earth and they'll teach you; let the fish in the sea tell you.

NET Bible
Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

New King James Version
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will explain to you.

King James 2000 Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fish of the sea shall declare unto you.

New Heart English Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

World English Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

American King James Version
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.

American Standard Version
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

A Faithful Version
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; and the fish of the sea shall declare it to you;

Darby Bible Translation
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

English Revised Version
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Or the encrease of the earth, and it shall shew thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall certifie thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Speake to the earth, and it shall shewe the: Or to the fyshes of the see, and they shal certifie the.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Or talk to the earth, and it shows you, "" And fishes of the sea recount to you:

Young's Literal Translation
Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

Smith's Literal Translation
Or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall recount to thee.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Or tell the earth and it will teach you and the fish of the sea will tell you

Lamsa Bible
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.
















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