Job 36:12
New International Version
But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

New Living Translation
But if they refuse to listen to him, they will cross over the river of death, dying from lack of understanding.

English Standard Version
But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Berean Standard Bible
But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

King James Bible
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

New King James Version
But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

New American Standard Bible
“But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword, And die without knowledge.

NASB 1995
“But if they do not hear, they shall perish by the sword And they will die without knowledge.

NASB 1977
“But if they do not hear, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if they do not hear, they shall pass away by a weapon And they will breathe their last without knowledge.

Amplified Bible
“But if they do not hear and obey, they will die by the sword [of God’s destructive judgments] And they will die [in ignorance] without [true] knowledge.

Christian Standard Bible
But if they do not listen, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if they do not obey, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge.

American Standard Version
But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if they will not hear, they shall depart into destruction and they will come to an end without knowledge

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.

Contemporary English Version
But if they foolishly refuse, they will be rewarded with a violent death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

English Revised Version
But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But if they don't listen, they will cross the River [of Death] and die like those who have no knowledge.

Good News Translation
But if not, they will die in ignorance and cross the stream into the world of the dead.

International Standard Version
"But if they won't listen, they'll perish by the sword and die in their ignorance.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

Literal Standard Version
And if they do not listen, | They pass away by the dart, | And expire without knowledge.

Majority Standard Bible
But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

New American Bible
But if they do not listen, they pass to the grave, they perish for lack of knowledge.

NET Bible
But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

New Revised Standard Version
But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.

New Heart English Bible
But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

World English Bible
But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

Young's Literal Translation
And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

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Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness. 12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge. 13The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.…

Cross References
Job 4:21
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'

Job 15:22
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

Job 36:13
The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

Proverbs 5:23
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.


Treasury of Scripture

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

if

Deuteronomy 18:15
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Deuteronomy 29:15-20
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: …

Isaiah 1:20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

perish.

Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

John 8:21-24
Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come…

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Verse 12. - But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword. Not, necessarily, by a material sword, but by the sword of God's vengeance, which slays in a thousand different manners, piercing through all obstacles, and reaching to the heart and spirit. And they shall die without knowledge. Either without knowing that they are about to die, or in their wilful ignorance of God's intentions in chastising them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

they do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

obey,
יִ֭שְׁמְעוּ (yiš·mə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

they will perish
יַעֲבֹ֑רוּ (ya·‘ă·ḇō·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

by the sword
בְּשֶׁ֣לַח (bə·še·laḥ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7973: A missile of attack, spear, a shoot of growth, branch

and die
וְ֝יִגְוְע֗וּ (wə·yiḡ·wə·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1478: To breathe out, expire

without
כִּבְלִי־ (kiḇ·lî-)
Preposition-k | Adverb
Strong's 1097: Failure, nothing, destruction, without, not yet, because not, as long as

knowledge.
דָֽעַת׃‪‬ (ḏā·‘aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1847: Knowledge


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