Księga Hioba 29:10

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Głos książąt ucichał, a język ich do podniebienia ich przylegał.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Głos książąt zawściągnion był, a język ich przysychał do podniebienia.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Głos książąt ucichał, a język ich do podniebienia ich przylegał.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Milkł również głos przywódców, język przywierał im do podniebienia.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Milkły głosy władców, a ich język przylegał im do podniebienia.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Głos dostojników cichł, a ich język przylegał im do podniebienia.

Biblia Warszawska
Głos przywódców milkł, a ich język przylgnął im do podniebienia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

nobles held their peace: Heb. voice of the nobles was hid, their tongue. Psalms 137:6, Ezekiel 3:26

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:8 - held Job 1:3 - greatest Job 29:21 - gave ear Psalms 22:15 - tongue Isaiah 52:15 - kings Micah 7:16 - lay

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The nobles held their peace,.... These may be in some respects inferior to the others; not princes of the blood, or sons of kings, who were properly princes, and yet great personages, of a noble extraction, and of considerable families: some think the leaders and generals of armies are meant, commanders and captains, and such like military officers, those sons of Mars, who are generally bold and daring, boisterous and blustering, and full of talk; and yet even these held their peace in the presence of Job:, or their "voice [was] hid" r; it could not be heard:

and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth; so that they had no use of it, and it was as if they had none, see Ezekiel 3:26. Here are various expressions made use of, signifying the profound silence of great personages while Job was present; and this silence was owing either to a consciousness of their own weakness, and lest they should, by speaking before him, betray it, and he should expose them; or to the desire they had of hearing Job's opinion first, which was as an oracle to them, and usually determined matters in debate before them; such high sentiments did they entertain of Job's good sense and abilities.

r נחבאו "occultabatur", Drusius; "occultabat se", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The nobles - Margin, “The voice of the nobles was hid.” Literally, this may be rendered, “as to the voice the nobles hid themselves;” or the phrase here employed (נגידים קול נחבאו n^echâbâ'û qôl nāgı̂ydiym) may be rendered, “the voice of the nobles was hid” - it being common in the Hebrew when two nouns come together, of different numbers and gender, for the verb to conform to the latter. Rosenmuller. The word “nobles” here is to be understood in the sense of “counsellors,” or men of rank. They would now be called “Emirs,” or “Sheiks.”

And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth - They were so awed by my presence that they could not speak.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 29:10. The nobles held their peace — PRINCES שרים sarim, and NOBLES, נגידים negidim, must have been two different classes of the great men of Idumea. שר sar, PRINCE, director, or ruler, was probably the head of a township, or what we would call a magistrate of a particular district. נגיד nagid, a NOBLE, or one of those who had the privilege of standing before, or in the presence of, the chief ruler. The participle נגד neged is frequently used to signify before, in the presence of, publicly, openly. And on this account, it is most likely that the noun means one of those nobles or counsellors who were always admitted to the royal presence. Mr. Good thinks that renowned speakers or eminent orators are meant: and others have embraced the same opinion. Job here intimates that his judgment was so sound, his decisions so accredited, and his reasoning power so great, that every person paid him the utmost deference.