Job 20:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַ֭צְמוֹתָיו מָלְא֣וּ *עלומו **עֲלוּמָ֑יו וְ֝עִמּ֗וֹ עַל־עָפָ֥ר תִּשְׁכָּֽב׃

Transliteration

ʿaṣmôtāyw mālʾû ʿălûmāyw wĕ- ʿimmô ʿal- ʿāpār tiškāb

Grammar Details

• *ʿaṣmôtāyw*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his bones
• *mālʾû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are full
• *ʿălûmāyw*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his youthful vigor
• *wĕ-*: conjunction - and
• *ʿimmô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - with him
• *ʿal-*: preposition - upon
• *ʿāpār*: noun, masculine singular - dust
• *tiškāb*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it will lie down

Word Meanings

• *ʿaṣmôtāyw*: his bones/his frame/his skeleton
• *mālʾû*: are full of/are filled with/are stuffed with
• *ʿălûmāyw*: his youthful vigor/his youth/his secret sins
• *ʿāpār*: dust/dirt/soil/earth
• *tiškāb*: will lie down/will rest/will recline

Referenced Verses

• Job 21:26 : 26 They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
• Job 13:26 : 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
• Ps 25:7 : 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.
• Prov 5:11-13 : 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; 13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
• Prov 5:22-23 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. 23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
• Ezek 24:13 : 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
• Ezek 32:27 : 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
• John 8:21 : 21 He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot {G1410} come.
• John 8:24 : 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except {G3361} ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.
• Acts 1:25 : 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
• Job 19:20 : 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.