Genesis 18:12 Parallel Translations

And so Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "Now that I've become old, will I enjoy myself again? What's more, my husband is old!"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

ASV:

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

BBE:

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

DBY:

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?

ERV:

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

JPS:

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'

WBS:

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

WEB:

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

YLT:

and Abraham and Sarah are aged, entering into days -- the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;

Genesis 18:12 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"

Luke 1:18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

1 Peter 3:6 just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

18:12 Therefore Sarah {g} laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
(g) For she believed the order of nature, rather than believing the promise of God.

WES:

18:12 Sarah laughed within herself - It was not a laughter of faith, like Abraham's, Ge 17:17, but a laughter of doubting and distrust. The great objection which Sarah could not get over was her age. I am waxed old, and past child - bearing in a course of nature, especially having been hitherto barren, and which magnifies the difficulty, My lord is old also. Observe here, That Sarah calls Abraham her lord, and the Holy Ghost takes notice of it to her honour, and recommends it to the imitation of all Christian wives, 1Pe 3:6. Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him lord, in token of respect and subjection.

MHC:

18:9-15 Where is Sarah thy wife? was asked. Note the answer, In the tent. Just at hand, in her proper place, occupied in her household concerns. There is nothing got by gadding. Those are most likely to receive comfort from God and his promises, who are in their proper place, and in the way of their duty, Lu 2:8. We are slow of heart to believe, and need line upon line to the same purport. The blessings others have from common providence, believers have from the Divine promise, which makes them very sweet, and very sure. The spiritual seed of Abraham owe their life, and joy, and hope, and all, to the promise. Sarah thinks this too good news to be true; she laughed, and therefore cannot as yet find in her heart to believe it. Sarah laughed. We might not have thought there was a difference between Sarah's laughter and Abraham's, ch. 17:17; but He who searches the heart, saw that the one sprung from unbelief, and the other from faith. She denied that she had laughed. One sin commonly brings in another, and it is not likely we shall strictly keep to truth, when we question the Divine truth. But whom the Lord loves he will rebuke, convict, silence, and bring to repentance, and if they sin before him.

CONC:

Aged Ceased Entering Grown Herself Husband Laughed Laughing Master Pleasure Sarah Saying Waxed Within Women Worn

Abraham Aged Ceased Entering Grown Herself Husband Laughed Master Pleasure Sarah Thought Used Waxed Way Within Women Worn

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