Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GSo we laboured at the work, and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageSo we pressed on with the work, half of them gripping spears from the first light of dawn until the stars came out.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleSo we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.
Footnotes
The phrase *mēʿălôt haššaḥar ʿad ṣēʾt hakkôkābîm* ("from the ascent of the dawn until the going-out of the stars") is vivid Hebrew poetry for the longest possible working day—every hour of light and beyond. *Šaḥar* (dawn) is the same word used of the morning star and, in Isaiah 14:12, of the hubris of fallen Babylon. The workers' dawn-to-starlight endurance stands as a quiet counter-testimony to any claim that the work is dying. FOG renders this literally; FOG Message uses "first light" and "stars came out" for natural, visceral English.
