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Job 34:4

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

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מִשְׁפָּ֥טmishpatlawמִשְׁפָּטnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “law”, the ordinary formH4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style[phrase] adversary, ceremony, charge, [idiom] crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right,…נִבְחֲרָהnivcharahacceptableבָּחַרverb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, plural — “acceptable”, an unfinished actionH977properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) selectacceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.לָּ֑נוּlanvtoלָּ֑נוּpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “to”toנֵדְעָ֖הnedeahknowיָדַעverb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, plural — “know”, an unfinished actionH3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, [idiom] could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with…בֵינֵ֣ינוּveyneynvbetweenבֵּיןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “between”H996between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...oramong, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), [phrase] from (the widest), [idiom] in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.מַהmahhowמָהparticle, interrogative — “how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.טּֽוֹבtovgoodטוֹבadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “good”, the ordinary formH2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant,…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Young’s Literal Translation

Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

World English Bible

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Darby Translation

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good!

Douay-Rheims

Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Let us choose judgment to ourselves: let us know among ourselves what is right.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Κρίσιν ἑλώμεθα ἑαυτοῖς, γνῶμεν ἀναμέσον ἑαυτῶν, ὅ, τι καλόν.