יִ֭שְׂאוּ כְּתֹ֣ף וְכִנּ֑וֹר וְ֝יִשְׂמְח֗וּ לְק֣וֹל עוּגָֽב
They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Job 21:12
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Job 21:12 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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King James Version Public Domain
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
They lift up the tambourine and the harp, and they rejoice to the sound of the flute.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
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King James Version Public Domain
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
They lift `themselves' up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
They sing to the tambourine and harp and rejoice with the music of the flute.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
They lift up the tambourine and the harp, and they rejoice to the sound of the flute.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They sing accompanied by the tambourine and lyre; they celebrate with the music of the flute.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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עוּגָֽב
ʻûwgâb
H5748
“pipe”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 4:21
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
a musical instrument
- perhaps a flute, reed-pipe, or panpipes
- יִ֭שְׂאוּ nâsâʼ H5375 “to lift” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- כְּתֹ֣ף tôph H8596 “like/as · timbrel” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְכִנּ֑וֹר kinnôwr H3658 “and · lyre” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְ֝יִשְׂמְח֗וּ sâmach H8055 “and · to rejoice” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- לְק֣וֹל qôwl H6963 “to/for · voice of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- עוּגָֽב ʻûwgâb H5748 “pipe” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Wisdom
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is עוּגָֽב pipe H5748 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עוּגָֽב pipe H5748 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
Verb forms
- יִ֭שְׂאוּ Qal · Imperfect
- וְ֝יִשְׂמְח֗וּ Qal · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 6 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.
Cross-references
5Topical passages linked to Job 21:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 4:21 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
- Isaiah 5:12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
- Amos 6:4–6 Who lie on beds of ivory, And stretch themselves on their couches, And eat the lambs out of the flock, And the calves out of the midst of the stall;
- Genesis 31:27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
- Isaiah 22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 9 words vs World English Bible 15. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ἀναλαμβάνω ψαλτήριον καί κιθάρα καί εὐφραίνω φωνή ψαλμός
and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Adam Clarke's Commentary 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 →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Job, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻûwgâb (“pipe”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “pipe” (ʻûwgâb) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 4:21, which shares the word «pipe», read alongside this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «יִ֭שְׂאוּ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Job 21:12 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.