Judges 5:29

Wycliffe Bible

Oon wisere than `othere wyues of hym answeride these wordis to the modir of hir hosebonde,

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,

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 Blessyd among wymmen be Jahel, the wijf of Aber Cyney; blessid be sche in hir tabernacle. ²⁵ To Sisara axynge watir sche yaf mylk, and in a viol of princes sche yaf botere. ²⁶ Sche puttide the left hond to a nail, and the riyt hond to the `hameris of smyythis; and sche smoot Sisara, and souyte in the heed a place of wounde, and perside strongli the temple. <sup>27</sup> He felde bitwixe `the feet of hir, he failide, and diede; he was waltryd bifor hir feet, and he lay with out soule, and wretchidful. ²⁸ His modir bihelde bi a wyndow, and yellide; and sche spak fro the soler, Whi tarieth his chaar to come ayen? Whi tarieden the feet of his foure horsid cartis? ²⁹ Oon wisere than `othere wyues of hym answeride these wordis to the modir of hir hosebonde, ³⁰ In hap now he departith spuylis, and the faireste of wymmen is chosun to hym; clothis of dyuerse colouris ben youun to Sisara in to prey, and dyuerse aray of houshold is gaderid to ourne neckis. ³¹ Lord, alle thin enemyes perische so; sotheli, thei that louen thee, schyne so, as the sunne schyneth in his risyng. And the lond restide fourti yeer.

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 alle the daies of Seth weren maad nyne hundrid and twelue yeer, and he was deed.

Genesis 5:9
Forsothe Enos lyuede nynti yeer, and gendride Caynan;

Genesis 5:11
And alle the daies of Enos weren maad nyne hundrid and fyue yeer, and he was deed.

Genesis 5:12
Also Caynan lyuyde seuenti yeer, and gendride Malalehel.

Genesis 5:17
And alle the daies of Malalehel weren maad eiyte hundrid nynti and fyue yeer, and he was deed.

Genesis 5:19
And Jared lyuede aftir that he gendride Enoth eiyte hundrid yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.

Genesis 5:26
And Matusalem lyuede after that he gendride Lameth seuene hundrid and `fourscoor yeer and twei, and gendride sones and douytris.

Genesis 5:27
And alle the daies of Matusale weren maad nyn hundrid and nyn and sixti yeer, and he was deed.

Genesis 7:23
And God dide awei al substaunce that was on erthe, fro man til to beeste, as wel a crepynge beeste as the briddis of heuene; and tho weren doon awei fro erthe. Forsothe Noe dwellide aloone, and thei that weren with hym in the schip.

Genesis 9:24
And forsothe Noe wakide of the wyn, and whanne he hadde lerned what thingis his lesse sone hadde do to hym,

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.