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Ye hypocrites! Ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time?
You hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders)! You know how to analyze and intelligently interpret the appearance of the earth and sky [to forecast the weather], but why do you not intelligently interpret this present time?
You playactors (hypocrites)! You know how [intelligently] to discern and interpret and prove the looks of the earth and sky; but how is it that you do not know how to discern and interpret and apply the proof to this present time?
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret conditions on earth and in the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret the present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky — how is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?
Are you trying to fool someone? You can predict the weather by looking at the earth and sky, but you don't really know what's going on right now.
Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how [is it then that] ye do not discern this time?
Hypocrites! You know-how to test the appearance of the earth and the heaven, but how is it you do not know-how to test this time?
You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?
You hypocrites! You can understand the weather. Why don’t you understand what is happening now?
You are hypocrites! You look at the earth and the sky, and you know what weather will come. So look at the special things that are happening near you now. They show you what will soon happen. But you do not understand what they are showing you. Why not?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you do not know how to interpret this present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to ·understand [interpret] the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you ·understand [know how to interpret] ·what is happening now [this present time; C the time of the coming of the Kingdom]?
Hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the earth, and of the sky: but why discern ye not this time?
You hypocrites! You can forecast the weather by judging the appearance of earth and sky. But for some reason you don’t know how to judge the time in which you’re living.
Hypocrites! You can look at the earth and the sky and predict the weather; why, then, don't you know the meaning of this present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this time?
Hypocrites! You can understand the weather. Why don’t you understand what is happening now?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, yet you don’t know how to interpret the present time?”
Then he said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once that it is going to rain, and so it does. And when you feel the south wind blowing, you say that it is going to be hot, and so it is. You frauds! You know how to interpret the look of the earth and the sky. Why can’t you interpret the meaning of the times in which you live?”
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
You hypocrites! You know how to examine the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not examine this present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to evaluate the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it you do not know how to evaluate this present time?
Hypocrites! You interpret the sky well enough, but you refuse to notice the warnings all around you about the crisis ahead.
Then he turned to the crowd: “When you see clouds coming in from the west, you say, ‘Storm’s coming’—and you’re right. And when the wind comes out of the south, you say, ‘This’ll be a hot one’—and you’re right. Frauds! You know how to tell a change in the weather, so don’t tell me you can’t tell a change in the season, the God-season we’re in right now.
You hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth. But why do you not know how to discern this time?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you do not know how to interpret · this present time? ·
You hypocrites! You can forecast the weather by judging the appearance of earth and sky. But for some reason you don’t know how to judge the time in which you’re living.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you do not know how to analyze this present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky. Why then do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to understand the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you understand what is happening now?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?
You pretenders! You know how to understand the appearance of the earth and the sky. Why can’t you understand the meaning of what is happening right now?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?
Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?
Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?
You who pretend to be someone you are not, you know all about the sky and the earth. But why do you not know what is happening these days?
You fools! You know how to interpret the weather signs of the earth and sky, but you don’t know how to interpret the present times.
Hypocrites, you know how to interpret the aspect of the earth and of the sky, but why is it that you cannot interpret this present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You impostors! You know how to work out what the earth and the sky are telling you; why can’t you work out what’s going on at this very moment?
Tzevu’im! You have daas how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you do not have daas of how to interpret HaZman HaZeh (This Time)?
“Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the earth and of the sky. But why can you not discern this time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Hypocrites! The surface of the earth and sky you know how to interpret yet you don’t know how to interpret this present time?
Listen, hypocrites! You can predict the weather by paying attention to the sky and the earth, but why can’t you interpret the urgency of this present moment?
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
You are not true to yourselves! You know the meaning of these signs in the earth and sky. But you do not know the meaning of the signs about the time in which we are living.'
Hypocrites, ye know how to prove the face of heaven and of earth, but how prove ye not this time[?]
hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of [it]?
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