Judges 5:29

Good News Translation

Her wisest friends answered her, and she told herself over and over,

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,

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,

Bible in Basic English
Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again 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 The most fortunate of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite— the most fortunate of women who live in tents. ²⁵ Sisera asked for water, but she gave him milk; she brought him cream in a beautiful bowl. ²⁶ She took a tent peg in one hand, a worker's hammer in the other; she struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she pierced him through the head. ²⁷ He sank to his knees, fell down and lay still at her feet. At her feet he sank to his knees and fell; he fell to the ground, dead. ²⁸ Sisera's mother looked out of the window; she gazed from behind the lattice. "Why is his chariot so late in coming?" she asked. "Why are his horses so slow to return?" ²⁹ Her wisest friends answered her, and she told herself over and over, ³⁰ "They are only finding things to capture and divide, a woman or two for every soldier, rich cloth for Sisera, embroidered pieces for the neck of the queen." ³¹ So may all your enemies die like that, O Lord , but may your friends shine like the rising sun! And there was peace in the land for forty years.

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 died at the age of 912.

Genesis 5:9
When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan,

Genesis 5:11
and died at the age of 905.

Genesis 5:12
When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,

Genesis 5:17
and died at the age of 895.

Genesis 5:19
and then lived another 800 years. He had other children

Genesis 5:26
and then lived another 782 years. He had other children

Genesis 5:27
and died at the age of 969.

Genesis 7:23
The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth—human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.

Genesis 9:24
When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

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.