Job 14:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִ֥ם חֲרוּצִ֨ים ׀ יָמָ֗יו מִֽסְפַּר־חֳדָשָׁ֥יו אִתָּ֑ךְ *חקו **חֻקָּ֥יו עָ֝שִׂ֗יתָ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲבֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

ʾim ḥărûṣîm yāmāyw mispar-ḥŏdāšāyw ʾittāk ḥuqqāyw ʿāśîtā wəlōʾ yaʿăbôr

Grammar Details

• *ʾim*: conditional particle - if
• *ḥărûṣîm*: adjective, masculine, plural - determined/decided/fixed
• *yāmāyw*: noun, masculine, plural, construct + 3rd person, masculine, singular, suffix - his days
• *mispar*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - number of
• *ḥŏdāšāyw*: noun, masculine, plural, construct + 3rd person, masculine, singular, suffix - his months
• *ʾittāk*: preposition + 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix - with you
• *ḥuqqāyw*: noun, masculine, plural, construct + 3rd person, masculine, singular, suffix - his limits/boundaries
• *ʿāśîtā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular - you have made
• *wəlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *yaʿăbôr*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he passes over/transgresses

Word Meanings

• *ḥărûṣîm*: determined/fixed/decided/cut
• *mispar*: number/count/reckoning
• *ḥuqqāyw*: his limits/his boundaries/his prescribed limits
• *yaʿăbôr*: passes over/transgresses/crosses/exceeds

Referenced Verses

• Ps 39:4 : 4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
• Job 21:21 : 21 For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
• Acts 17:26 : 26 and he made of one {G129} every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And {G2596} inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;
• Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, {G0} {G281} and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
• Job 23:13-14 : 13 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 14 For he performeth that which is appointed for me: And many such things are with him.
• Job 7:1 : 1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
• Job 12:10 : 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
• Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
• Ps 104:9 : 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
• Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
• Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
• Dan 5:26 : 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;
• Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Dan 11:36 : 36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.
• Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?