Job 13:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּה־נָ֭א עָרַ֣כְתִּי מִשְׁפָּ֑ט יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י אֶצְדָּֽק׃

Transliteration

hinnēh-nāʾ ʿārāktî mišpāṭ yādaʿtî kî-ʾănî ʾeṣdāq

Grammar Details

*hinnēh*: interjection - behold/see
*nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please/now
*ʿārāktî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have arranged/prepared
*mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine singular - judgment/case
*yādaʿtî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I know
*kî*: conjunction - that
*ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
*ʾeṣdāq*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be justified/righteous

Word Meanings

*ʿārāktî* *mišpāṭ*: I have prepared my case/I have arranged my legal argument
*ʾeṣdāq*: I will be justified/I will be vindicated/I am righteous

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 23:4 : 4 I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 9:2-3 : 2 Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God? 3 If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:20 : 20 Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
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 40:7-8 : 7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
Isa 43:26 : 26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified.
Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; 34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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