Job 11:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃

Transliteration

badeyka mətim yaḥarishu wə-tilʿag wə-ʾen maklim

Grammar Details

*badeyka*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your idle talk/boasting
*mətim*: noun, masculine plural absolute - men/mortals
*yaḥarishu*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will be silent
*wə-tilʿag*: conjunction + qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you mock
*wə-ʾen*: conjunction + particle of negation - and there is no
*maklim*: hiphil participle masculine singular - one causing shame/rebuking

Word Meanings

*badeyka*: your idle talk/your vain words/your lies/your boasting
*mətim*: men/people/mortals
*yaḥarishu*: be silent/hold peace/be still
*tilʿag*: mock/scorn/deride
*maklim*: one who puts to shame/rebukes/reproaches

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 24:25 : 25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
Ps 35:16 : 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Ps 83:16 : 16 Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
Jer 15:17 : 17 I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
Titus 2:8 : 8 sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.
Jude 1:18 : 18 That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 13:4 : 4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:9 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
Job 15:2-3 : 2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

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