Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionAnd the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GThe children were crushing against each other within her womb, and she said, "If this is so, why do I even exist?" And she went to inquire of YHWH.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageThe children struggled violently within her, and she said, "If it is to be like this, why do I go on living?" And she went to seek Yahweh.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleBut the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
Footnotes
וַיִּתְרֹצְצוּ (wayyitrotsatsu) derives from רצץ (ratsats) = to crush, shatter, batter — a violent word far beyond the gentler English "struggled." Her cry is equally raw: the Hebrew אִם-כֵּן לָמָּה זֶּה אָנֹכִי (lit. "if thus, why this — I?") is deliberately elliptical, an anguished fragment rather than a complete sentence. The F.O.G renders the existential edge ("why do I even exist?"); the F.O.G Message draws out the despair of ongoing suffering ("why do I go on living?"). Both are defensible readings of the intentionally broken phrase.
