2nd Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 4:8

`we are' pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 4:8

Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 4:8

every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 4:8

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 4:8


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WEB 2ndCorinthians 4:8

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 4:8

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;
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2nd Corinthians 4 : 8 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Troubled; afflicted, as in 2 Corinthians 1:4. On every side; in everything. Distressed; rather, driven to straits. Perplexed, but not in despair. In the original is a beautiful paronomasia, which might, perhaps, be represented in English by "pressed, but not oppressed." Literally the words mean, being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss. In the special anguish of trial of which he spoke in 2 Corinthians 1:8 (comp. 2 Corinthians 7:5), he was indeed for a time "utterly at a loss," reduced to utter despair; but in the normal conditions which he here describes he always, as it were, saw some outlet out of his worst perplexities.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) We are troubled on every side.--The Greek presents all the clauses in a participial form, in apposition with the "we" with which 2Corinthians 4:7 opens. The careful antithesis in each case requires some modification of the English version in order to be at all adequately expressed. Hemmed-in in everything, yet not straitened for room perplexed, yet not baffled; or, as it has been rendered, less literally, but with great vividness, bewildered, but not benighted. The imagery in both clauses belongs to the life of the soldier on active service.