Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
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Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
The happiness of your men! The happiness of these servants of yours, the ones standing to your face continually, the ones hearing your wisdom!
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Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, `and' that hear thy wisdom.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
Happy are the men, happie are these thy seruants, which stande euer before thee, and heare thy wisedome.
Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.
O the happiness of thy men, O the happiness of thy servants -- these -- who are standing before thee continually, who are hearing thy wisdom!
O the blessedness of your men, O the blessedness of your servants—these—who are standing before you continually, who are hearing your wisdom!
How blessed are your wives, and how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you, because they hear your wisdom.
The happiness of your men! The happiness of these servants of yours, the ones standing to your face continually, the ones hearing your wisdom!
Happy are thy men! happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, who hear thy wisdom!
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
How happy your people must be! How happy those who work for you, who stand here every day listening to your wisdom!
Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
אַשְׁרֵ֣י blessed H835 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 10:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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אַשְׁרֵ֣י אֲנָשֶׁ֔יךָ אַשְׁרֵ֖י עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ אֵ֑לֶּה הָֽעֹמְדִ֤ים לְפָנֶ֨יךָ֙ תָּמִ֔יד הַשֹּׁמְעִ֖ים אֶת חָכְמָתֶֽךָ
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
World English Bible · Public Domain
μακάριος ὁ γυνή σύ μακάριος ὁ παῖς σύ οὗτος ὁ παραἵστημι ἐνώπιον σύ διά ὅλος ὁ ἀκούω πᾶς ὁ φρόνησις σύ
Blessed are your wives, blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually, who hear all your wisdom.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
טוּבֵי גַבְרָךְ טוּבֵי עַבְדָךְ אִלֵין דְקַיְמִין קֳדָמָךְ תְּדִירָא דְשָׁמְעִין יַת חוּכְמָתָךְ:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼesher (“blessed”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 10:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.