Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionI, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GI — I Myself am He who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal man, who will die — or a son of Adam who will be made like grass?
F.O.G.M
F.O.G MessageI — I Myself am the One who comforts you. Who do you think you are, cowering before a man who will die, before a child of Adam who will wither like grass?
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
Footnotes
The doubled personal pronoun אָנֹכִי אָנֹכִי (*anoki anoki*, "I, I Myself") is a syntactical intensifier echoing the weight of divine self-declaration at the burning bush (Exod. 3:14). *Enosh* (אֱנוֹשׁ) specifically connotes humanity in its frailty and mortality (cf. Ps. 8:4; 90:3), while *ben-adam* invokes the representational human figure. The contrast between the Eternal Comforter and the mortal grass-man renders Israel's fear both understandable and exposed as absurd. FOG preserves both Hebrew terms side by side; FOG Message sharpens the rhetorical edge with "Who do you think you are, cowering" to capture the divine incredulity at Israel's misdirected terror.
