Judges 5:29

Literal Standard Version

The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, || Indeed, she returns her sayings 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,

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

²⁴Above women is Jael, || The wife of Heber the Kenite, || She is blessed above women in the tent. ²⁵He asked for water—she gave milk; She brought butter near in a lordly dish. ²⁶She sends forth her hand to the pin, || And her right hand to the laborers' hammer, || And she hammered Sisera—she struck his head, || Indeed, she struck, and it passed through his temple. ²⁷He bowed between her feet—He fell, he lay down; He bowed between her feet, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell—destroyed. ²⁸She has looked out through the window—Indeed, she cries out—the mother of Sisera, || Through the lattice: Why is his chariot delaying to come? Why have the steps of his chariot tarried? ²⁹The wise ones, her princesses, answer her, || Indeed, she returns her sayings to herself:³⁰Do they not find? They apportion spoil, || A female—two females—for every head, || Spoil of finger-work for Sisera, || Spoil of embroidered finger-work, || Finger-work—a pair of embroidered things, || For the necks of the spoil! ³¹So do all Your enemies perish, O YHWH, || And those loving Him [are] || As the going out of the sun in its might!" And the land rests [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 all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dies.

Genesis 5:9
And Enos lives ninety years [[or one hundred and ninety years]], and begets Cainan.

Genesis 5:11
And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dies.

Genesis 5:12
And Cainan lives seventy years [[or one hundred and seventy years]], and begets Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:17
And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he dies.

Genesis 5:19
And Jared lives after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:26
And Methuselah lives after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begets sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he dies.

Genesis 7:23
And all the substance that is on the face of the ground is wiped away—from man to beast, to creeping thing, and to bird of the heavens; indeed, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the ark;

Genesis 9:24
And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has 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.