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Psalms 59:15

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— They wander about for food And growl if they are not satisfied.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— They shall wander up and down for meat and tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Let them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they are not satisfied.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— They, may prowl about for food,—And, if they are not satisfied, then let them whine!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— They—they wander for food, If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— They shall runne here and there for meate: and surely they shall not be satisfied, though they tary all night.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Let them wander vp and downe for meate, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Let them be hungry and not be filled, neither let them find a lodging place.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— They shall be scattered hither and thither for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Let them x1992
(1992) Complement
הֵם
hem
{haym}
Masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic).
wander up and down 5128
{5128} Prime
נוּעַ
nuwa`
{noo'-ah}
A primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined).
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
z8675
<8675> Grammar
Kethiv Reading

Where the translators of the Authorised Version followed the qere reading rather than the kethiv.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
for meat, 398
{0398} Prime
אָכַל
'akal
{aw-kal'}
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
z8800
<8800> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Infinitive (See H8812)
Count - 4888
and grudge 3885
{3885} Prime
לוּן
luwn
{loon}
A primitive root; to stop (usually over night); by implication to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
if x518
(0518) Complement
אִם
'im
{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
they be not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
satisfied. 7646
{7646} Prime
שָׂבַע
saba`
{saw-bah'}
A primitive root; to sate, that is, fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 59:14-15.


Psalms 59:15

_ _ grudge if, etc. — literally, “they shall stay all night,” that is, obtain nothing.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 59:8-17.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
wander:

Psalms 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 30:1-7 But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. ... Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

for meat:
Heb. to eat,
Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 28:53-58 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: ... If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
2 Kings 6:25-29 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver. ... So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Lamentations 4:4-5 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them. ... They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:9-10 [They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field. ... The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 5:9 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Matthew 24:7-8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. ... All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.

grudge:
etc. or, if they be not satisfied, then they will stay all night

if:

Isaiah 56:11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Micah 3:5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Dt 28:48, 53. 2K 6:25. Jb 15:23; 30:1. Ps 109:10. Is 8:21; 56:11. Lm 4:4, 9; 5:9. Mi 3:5. Mt 24:7.

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