Job 16:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no [resting] -place.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֭רֶץ אַל־תְּכַסִּ֣י דָמִ֑י וְֽאַל־יְהִ֥י מָ֝ק֗וֹם לְזַעֲקָתִֽי׃

Transliteration

ʾereṣ ʾal-təkassî dāmî wə-ʾal-yəhî māqôm ləzaʿăqātî

Grammar Details

*ʾereṣ*: noun feminine singular - earth
*ʾal-təkassî*: negative particle + Piel imperfect 2nd feminine singular jussive - do not cover
*dāmî*: noun masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - my blood
*wə-ʾal-yəhî*: conjunction + negative particle + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular jussive - and let there not be
*māqôm*: noun masculine singular - place
*ləzaʿăqātî*: preposition + noun feminine singular + 1st singular suffix - for my cry

Word Meanings

*ʾereṣ*: earth, land, ground
*təkassî*: to cover, conceal, hide
*dāmî*: blood
*yəhî*: to be, exist, happen
*māqôm*: place, spot, location
*zaʿăqātî*: cry, outcry

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
Gen 4:11 : 11 And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear: 19 But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Neh 4:5 : 5 and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.
Job 27:9 : 9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?
Jas 4:3-4 : 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Isa 58:9-9 : 9 Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; 10 and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;
Jer 22:29 : 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.

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