Job 17:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְ֭חֵלֶק יַגִּ֣יד רֵעִ֑ים וְעֵינֵ֖י בָנָ֣יו תִּכְלֶֽנָה׃

Transliteration

for-ḥēleq yaggîḏ rēʿîm wə-ʿênê ḇānāyw tiḵlenâ

Grammar Details

*ḥēleq*: noun, masculine singular - portion/share/lot
*yaggîḏ*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he informs/reports/tells
*rēʿîm*: noun, masculine plural - friends/companions
*wə-ʿênê*: conjunction + noun, feminine dual construct - and eyes of
*ḇānāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his children
*tiḵlenâ*: Qal imperfect 3rd person feminine plural - they will fail/be consumed

Word Meanings

*ḥēleq*: portion/share/lot/reward
*yaggîḏ*: he informs/reports/denounces/betrays
*rēʿîm*: friends/companions/neighbors
*ʿênê*: eyes/sight (metaphorically: understanding/perception)
*ḇānāyw*: his children/sons
*tiḵlenâ*: they will fail/be consumed/pine away/languish

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
Job 32:21-22 : 21 Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man. 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [Else] would my Maker soon take me away.
Ps 12:2-3 : 2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak. 3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;
Prov 20:19 : 19 He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; Therefore company not with him that openeth wide his lips.
Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.
Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
1 Kgs 11:12 : 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

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