Sa pangkalahatan, gayundin ang pangmalas ng makabagong mga tagapagsalin at mga leksikograpo sa dalawang tekstong ito, anupat ang ginagamit nila ay “mga demonyo” (Ro), “mga satyr” (RS, AT, JB, JP), o “hugis-kambing na mga demonyo” (NW; tingnan din ang Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros nina Koehler at Baumgartner, Leiden, 1958, p. 926, at A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament nina Brown, Driver, at Briggs, 1980, p. 972), maliban sa salin ni Robert Young, kung saan literal na isinalin ang terminong ito bilang “(mga) kambing,” at sa American Standard Version, na gumamit naman ng pananalitang “mga kambing na lalaki.”
Modern translators and lexicographers in general adopt the same view in these two texts, using “demons” (Ro), “satyrs” (RS, AT, JB, JP), or “goat-shaped demons” (NW; see also Koehler and Baumgartner’s Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros, Leiden, 1958, p. 926, and A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Brown, Driver, and Briggs, 1980, p. 972), exceptions being the translation by Robert Young, which renders the term literally as “goat(s),” and the American Standard Version, which uses “he-goats.”jw2019 jw2019