Job 15:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כָּל־יְמֵי רָשָׁע הוּא מִתְחוֹלֵל וּמִסְפַּר שָׁנִים נִצְפְּנוּ לֶעָרִיץ

Transliteration

kol-yəmê rāšāʿ hûʾ mitḥôlēl û-mispar šānîm niṣpənû leʿārîṣ

Grammar Details

• *kol-yəmê*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine plural construct - all days of
• *rāšāʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - wicked man
• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *mitḥôlēl*: hithpolel participle, masculine singular - writhes/is in pain
• *û-mispar*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and number of
• *šānîm*: noun, feminine plural - years
• *niṣpənû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - are hidden/stored up
• *leʿārîṣ*: preposition + adjective, masculine singular - for the oppressor

Word Meanings

• *kōl*: all, every, whole
• *yôm*: day, time, period
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked, criminal, guilty
• *ḥîl*: to writhe, be in pain, travail
• *mispār*: number, count, few
• *šānāh*: year, age
• *ṣāp̄an*: to hide, treasure up, store
• *ʿārîṣ*: violent, terrifying, ruthless

Referenced Verses

• Job 24:1 : 1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?
• Job 27:13 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
• Ps 90:3-4 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
• Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
• Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
• Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. 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? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
• Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
• Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts {G5613} in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.