Judges 5:29

Bible in Basic English

Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Her wisest princesses answer her;she even answers herself:

Hebrew Names Version
Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

King James Version
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

Lexham English Bible
The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself:

English Standard Version
Her wisest princesses answer, indeed, she answers herself,

New Century Version
The wisest of her servant ladies answer her, and Sisera's mother says to herself,

New English Translation
The wisest of her ladies answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,

Amplified Bible
"Her wise ladies answered her, Indeed, she repeated her words to herself,

New American Standard Bible
"Her wise princesses would answer her, Indeed she repeats her words to herself,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Her wise ladies answered her, Yea. Shee answered her selfe with her owne wordes,

Legacy Standard Bible
Die skranderste van haar vorstinne antwoord haar, ja, sy self antwoord op haar woorde:

Contemporary English Version
She and her wisest women gave the same answer:

Complete Jewish Bible
The wisest of her ladies answer her, and she repeats it to herself,

Darby Translation
The wise amongst her ladies answer [her], Yea, she returneth answer to herself,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Her wisest servant girl answers her. Yes, the servant gives her an answer:

George Lamsa Translation
Her wise ladies answered her, saying,

Good News Translation
Her wisest friends answered her, and she told herself over and over,

Literal Translation
The wise ones of her princesses answered her; yea, she returned her words to herself:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wysest amoge his ladies answered, & sayde vnto her:

American Standard Version
Her wise ladies answered her, Yea, she returned answer to herself,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Al the wyse ladyes aunswered her, yea and her owne wordes aunswered her selfe.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The wisest of her princesses answer her, yea, she returneth answer to herself:

King James Version (1611)
Her wise ladies answered her, yea she returned answere to her selfe,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Her wise ladies answered her, and she returned answers to herself, saying,

English Revised Version
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

Berean Standard Bible
Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oon wisere than `othere wyues of hym answeride these wordis to the modir of hir hosebonde,

Young's Literal Translation
The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, Yea, she returneth her sayings to herself:

Update Bible Version
Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

Webster's Bible Translation
Her wise ladies answered her, yes, she returned answer to herself.

World English Bible
Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

New King James Version
Her wisest ladies answered her, Yes, she answered herself,

New Living Translation
"Her wise women answer, and she repeats these words to herself:

New Life Bible
Her wise ladies answered her. But she asked herself again and again,

New Revised Standard
Her wisest ladies make answer, indeed, she answers the question herself:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The wise ladies, her princesses, responded, - Nay! she, returned answer to, herself: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this answer to her mother in law:

Revised Standard Version
Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Her wise princesses would answer her, Indeed she repeats her words to herself,

Contextual Overview

²⁴ Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents! ²⁵ His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate. ²⁶ She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow. ²⁷ Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death. ²⁸ Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding? ²⁹ Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself, ³⁰ Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen? ³¹ So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

answer: Heb. her words, Judges 5:29

Reciprocal: Esther 1:18 - the ladies

Cross-References

Genesis 5:8
And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.

Genesis 5:9
And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:

Genesis 5:11
And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end.

Genesis 5:12
And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:

Genesis 5:17
And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.

Genesis 5:19
And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:26
And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:27
And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

Genesis 7:23
Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

Genesis 9:24
And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Her wise ladies answered her,.... Every one in their turn endeavouring to comfort her and make her easy. The Vulgate Latin version is,

"one that was wiser than the rest of his wives;''

but they seem rather to be her maids of honour, or ladies of her acquaintance, who were come to pay her a visit, and share in the pleasing sight they expected to have of Sisera:

yea, she returned answer to herself; before they could well give theirs, she soon recollected herself what might be, and must be, the occasion of this delay; and this, according to the Targum, she made in her wisdom, what her great wisdom quickly suggested to her was certainly the case, and with which she comforted and quieted herself.