Job 15:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־יָסוּר מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ יֹנַקְתּוֹ תְּיַבֵּשׁ שַׁלְהָבֶת וְיָסוּר בְּרוּחַ פִּיו

Transliteration

lōʾ-yāsûr minnî-ḥōšeḵ yōnaqtô təyabbēš šalhāḇet wə-yāsûr bərûaḥ pîw

Grammar Details

• *lōʾ-yāsûr*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will not depart
• *minnî-ḥōšeḵ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from darkness
• *yōnaqtô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his shoot
• *təyabbēš*: piel imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - will dry up
• *šalhāḇet*: noun, feminine singular - flame
• *wə-yāsûr*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he will depart
• *bərûaḥ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - by the breath of
• *pîw*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his mouth

Word Meanings

• *sûr*: to turn aside, depart, remove
• *ḥōšeḵ*: darkness, obscurity
• *yôneqet*: shoot, branch, sucker
• *yāḇēš*: to be dry, dried up, withered
• *šalhāḇet*: flame, blaze
• *rûaḥ*: breath, wind, spirit
• *peh*: mouth, opening, edge

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:9 : 9 By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.
• Job 15:22 : 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
• Job 20:26 : 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
• Job 22:20 : 20 [ Saying], Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.
• Isa 11:4 : 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• Isa 30:33 : 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
• Ezek 15:4-7 : 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work! 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the vine - tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 20:47-48 : 47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby. 48 And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
• Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Mark 9:43-49 : 43 And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. 45 And if thy foot cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life halt, rather than having thy two feet to be cast into hell. 47 And if thine eye cause thee to stumble, cast it out: it is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell; 48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 49 For every one shall be salted with fire.
• 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
• Jude 1:13 : 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
• Rev 19:15 : 15 And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress {G3631} of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
• Job 18:5-6 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
• Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
• Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
• Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.