Job 15:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְבַעֲתֻהוּ צַר וּמְצוּקָה תִּתְקְפֵהוּ כְּמֶלֶךְ עָתִיד לַכִּידוֹר

Transliteration

yəḇaʿătuhû ṣar û-məṣûqāh titqəp̄ēhû kəmeleḵ ʿātîd lakkîdôr

Grammar Details

*yəḇaʿătuhû*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - it terrifies him
*ṣar*: noun, masculine singular - distress
*û-məṣûqāh*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and anguish
*titqəp̄ēhû*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - it overpowers him
*kəmeleḵ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like a king
*ʿātîd*: adjective, masculine singular - ready
*lakkîdôr*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the attack

Word Meanings

*bāʿat*: to terrify, startle, fall upon
*ṣar*: distress, adversity, enemy
*məṣûqāh*: straits, distress, anguish
*tāqap̄*: to prevail, overpower
*meleḵ*: king, ruler, sovereign
*ʿātîd*: ready, prepared
*kîdôr*: attack, assault, battle array

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Referenced Verses

Job 6:2-4 : 2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Ps 119:143 : 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet] thy commandments are my delight.
Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
Prov 6:11 : 11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Prov 24:34 : 34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Isa 13:3 : 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
Rom 2:9 : 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

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