Job 20:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּֽגֶלֲלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

kĕ- gĕlălô lā-neṣaḥ yōʾbēd rōʾāyw yōʾmĕrû ʾayyô

Grammar Details

*kĕ-*: preposition - like/as
*gĕlălô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his dung/excrement
*lā-neṣaḥ*: preposition with definite article and noun, masculine singular - to the perpetuity/forever
*yōʾbēd*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he perishes
*rōʾāyw*: verb qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his seers/those seeing him
*yōʾmĕrû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will say
*ʾayyô*: interrogative particle with 3rd masculine singular suffix - where is he?

Word Meanings

*gĕlălô*: his dung/his excrement/his refuse
*neṣaḥ*: perpetuity/forever/completeness
*yōʾbēd*: perishes/is destroyed/is lost
*rōʾāyw*: those seeing him/his viewers/those who saw him
*ʾayyô*: where is he?/where has he gone?

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, {H7023} him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone.
2 Kgs 9:37 : 37 and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Ps 83:10 : 10 Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.
Jer 8:2 : 2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Job 4:20 : 20 Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 7:10 : 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 8:18 : 18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

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