Job 16:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־שְׁנ֣וֹת מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ וְאֹ֖רַח לֹא־אָשׁ֣וּב אֶהֱלֹֽךְ׃

Transliteration

kî-šənôt mispār yeʾĕtāyû wə-ʾōraḥ lōʾ-ʾāšûb ʾehĕlōk

Grammar Details

*kî-šənôt*: conjunction + noun feminine plural construct - for years of
*mispār*: noun masculine singular - number
*yeʾĕtāyû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will come
*wə-ʾōraḥ*: conjunction + noun common singular - and a path
*lōʾ-ʾāšûb*: negative particle + Qal imperfect 1st singular - I will not return
*ʾehĕlōk*: Qal imperfect 1st singular - I will walk

Word Meanings

*šənôt*: years
*mispār*: number, few, count
*yeʾĕtāyû*: to come, arrive
*ʾōraḥ*: way, path, road
*ʾāšûb*: to return, turn back
*ʾehĕlōk*: to go, walk, proceed

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Eccl 12:5 : 5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Job 7:9-9 : 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 14:5 : 5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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