Job 13:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵ֣ן יִ֭קְטְלֵנִי *לא **ל֣וֹ אֲיַחֵ֑ל אַךְ־דְּ֝רָכַ֗י אֶל־פָּנָ֥יו אוֹכִֽיחַ׃

Transliteration

hēn yiqṭelēnî lōʾ/lô ʾăyaḥēl ʾak-derākay ʾel-pānāyw ʾôkîaḥ

Grammar Details

• *hēn*: interjection - behold/indeed
• *yiqṭelēnî*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he will kill me
• *lōʾ*/*lô*: negative particle/preposition with 3rd person masculine suffix - not/for him
• *ʾăyaḥēl*: verb, Piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will hope/wait
• *ʾak*: restrictive particle - only/yet/nevertheless
• *derākay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my ways
• *ʾel*-*pānāyw*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to his face
• *ʾôkîaḥ*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will defend/justify

Word Meanings

• *lōʾ*/*lô* *ʾăyaḥēl*: I will not hope/I will hope in him (textual variant)
• *ʾak*: only/yet/nevertheless
• *derākay*: my ways/my conduct/my arguments
• *ʾôkîaḥ*: I will defend/I will justify/I will argue

Referenced Verses

• Job 27:5 : 5 Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
• Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
• Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Job 23:4-7 : 4 I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me. 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me. 7 There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
• Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
• Job 13:18 : 18 Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.
• Job 16:17 : 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
• Job 16:21 : 21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
• Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
• Rom 8:38-39 : 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 John 3:20 : 20 because if our heart {G3754} condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
• Job 40:2 : 2 Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.
• Job 19:25-28 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. 28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
• Job 10:7 : 7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
• Job 40:4-5 : 4 Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken {(H8765)}, and I will not answer: Yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
• Job 31:31-37 : 31 If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? 32 (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller); 33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, 34 Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door— 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written! 36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.