Job 15:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־יַאֲמִין שׁוּב מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ וְצָפוּי הוּא אֱלֵי־חָרֶב

Transliteration

lōʾ-yaʾămîn šûḇ minnî-ḥōšeḵ wə-ṣāp̄ûy hûʾ ʾĕlê-ḥāreḇ

Grammar Details

*lōʾ-yaʾămîn*: negative particle + hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he does not believe
*šûḇ*: qal infinitive construct - returning
*minnî-ḥōšeḵ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from darkness
*wə-ṣāp̄ûy*: conjunction + qal passive participle, masculine singular - and watched/waited for
*hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
*ʾĕlê-ḥāreḇ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to the sword

Word Meanings

*ʾāman*: to believe, trust, have faith in
*šûḇ*: to return, turn back, repent
*ḥōšeḵ*: darkness, obscurity
*ṣāp̄āh*: to watch, look out, keep watch
*ḥereḇ*: sword, knife, cutting instrument

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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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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Jehovah; why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?
Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be {H5315} patient?
Job 9:16 : 16 If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
Job 19:29 : 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20:24-25 : 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through. 25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
Job 27:14 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Isa 8:21-22 : 21 And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: 22 and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
Matt 27:5 : 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

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