Job 11:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַחֵ֣קֶר אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּמְצָ֑א אִ֤ם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית שַׁדַּ֣י תִּמְצָֽא׃

Transliteration

ha-ḥēqer Eloah timtsāʾ ʾim ʿad-taklit Šadday timtsāʾ

Grammar Details

*ha-ḥēqer*: interrogative particle + noun masculine singular construct - the searching out of
*Eloah*: noun proper masculine singular - God
*timtsāʾ*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will find
*ʾim*: conjunction - if/or
*ʿad*: preposition - unto
*taklit*: noun feminine singular construct - perfection/end of
*Šadday*: noun proper masculine singular - the Almighty

Word Meanings

*ḥēqer*: searching out/investigation/depth
*Eloah*: God (singular form, less common than Elohim)
*timtsāʾ*: find/attain/reach
*taklit*: perfection/completion/end
*Šadday*: Almighty/Most Powerful (divine name)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
Eccl 3:11 : 11 He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
Ps 145:3 : 3 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; And his greatness is unsearchable.
Job 5:9 : 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
Job 37:23 : 23 [ Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: He is excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.
Ps 77:19 : 19 Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
Job 26:14 : 14 Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
1 Cor 2:10 : 10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 Cor 2:16 : 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Eph 3:8 : 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Isa 40:28 : 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knows the Son, save the Father; neither does any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomever the Son willeth to reveal him.

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