That person sings ¹  to others, ²  saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved. ³ 

biblegateway Job 33:27

"He will sing to men and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, And it is not proper for me.

He will look at men and say, "I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Each one sings in front of other people and says, ‘I sinned and did wrong instead of what was right, and it did me no good.

biblegateway Job 33:27

Then he comes to men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.

He sings before men and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.

bibleoremus Job 33:27

That person sings to others and says, ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, and it was not paid back to me.

if he affirms before everyone, “I have sinned, turned right into wrong without a thought”:

biblegateway Job 33:27

Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’

He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;

biblegateway Job 33:27

That person sings ¹  to others, ²  saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved. ³ 

¹ tc The verb יָשֹׁר (yashor) is unusual. The typical view is to change it to יָשִׁיר (yashir, “he sings”), but that may seem out of harmony with a confession. Dhorme suggests a root שׁוּר (shur, “to repeat”), but this is a doubtful root. J. Reider reads it יָשֵׁיר (yasher) and links it to an Arabic word “confesses” (ZAW 24 [1953]: 275).

² tn Heb “to men.”

³ tn The verb שָׁוָה (shavah) has the impersonal meaning here, “it has not been requited to me.” The meaning is that the sinner has not been treated in accordance with his deeds: “I was not punished according to what I deserved.”