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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
אח--לא פדה יפדה איש לא-יתן לאלהים כפרו
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
AKH--lA pdh ypdh AySH lA-ytn lAlhym kprv

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
audi popule meus et loquar Israhel et contestabor te Deus Deus tuus ego sum

King James Variants
American King James Version   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
King James 2000 (out of print)   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Authorized (King James) Version   
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
New King James Version   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him—
21st Century King James Version   
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him

Other translations
American Standard Version   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him;
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
A brother does not save, and a man does not give God his redemption.
Darby Bible Translation   
None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
God's Word   
No one can ever buy back another person or pay God a ransom for his life.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God--
International Standard Version   
No man can redeem the life of another, nor can he give to God a sufficient payment for him—
NET Bible   
Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
New American Standard Bible   
No man can by any means redeem his brother Or give to God a ransom for him--
New International Version   
No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them--
New Living Translation   
Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.
Webster's Bible Translation   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
The World English Bible   
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Nobody can pay the price to save another person. Nobody can pay God the price for their life.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.
New Life Version   
No man can save his brother. No man can pay God enough to save him.
The Voice Bible   
One person can’t grant salvation to another or make a payment to the True God for another.
Living Bible   
yet not one of them, though rich as kings, can ransom his own brother from the penalty of sin! For God’s forgiveness does not come that way.
New Catholic Bible   
those who place their trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Legacy Standard Bible   
Truly, no man can redeem his brother; He cannot give to God a ransom for him—
Jubilee Bible 2000   
none of them can by any means ransom his brother, nor give God an atonement for him;
Christian Standard Bible   
Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God—
Amplified Bible © 1954   
None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him—
New Century Version   
No one can buy back the life of another. No one can pay God for his own life,
The Message   
Really! There’s no such thing as self-rescue, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The cost of rescue is beyond our means, and even then it doesn’t guarantee Life forever, or insurance against the Black Hole.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
But no one can by any means redeem himself. He cannot give God a ransom for himself—
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life, there is no price one can give to God for it.
Good News Translation®   
We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,
Wycliffe Bible   
A brother again-buyeth not, shall a man again-buy? and he shall not give to God his pleasing. (No one shall ever be able to redeem himself; he shall never be able to pay God the price that he asketh for him.)
Contemporary English Version   
You cannot buy back your life or pay off God!
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life; there is no price one can give to God for it.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life, there is no price one can give to God for it.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Wealth? It can’t save a single person! It can’t pay a life’s ransom-price to God.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him—
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Of those who trust in their wealth and boast of their abundant riches?
New American Standard Bible   
No one can by any means redeem another Or give God a ransom for him—
The Expanded Bible   
No one can ·buy back [ransom; redeem] the life of ·another [or a brother]. No one can ·pay [L give a ransom to] God for his own life,
Tree of Life Version   
Or those trusting in their wealth, boasting about their great riches?
Revised Standard Version   
Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,
New International Reader's Version   
No one can pay for the life of anyone else. No one can give God what that would cost.
BRG Bible   
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Complete Jewish Bible   
the evil of those who rely on their wealth and boast how rich they are?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life, there is no price one can give to God for it.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
A brother cannot by any means redeem ish (man), nor give to Elohim a kofer (ransom) for him—
Names of God Bible   
No one can ever buy back another person or pay Elohim a ransom for his life.
Modern English Version   
none of them can by any means redeem the other, nor give to God a ransom for anyone,
Easy-to-Read Version   
But no one has enough to buy back a life, and you cannot bribe God.
International Children’s Bible   
No one can buy back the life of another person. No one can pay God for his own life.
Lexham English Bible   
Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom
New International Version - UK   
No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them –