Job 20:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַ֣יִן שְׁ֭זָפַתּוּ וְלֹ֣א תוֹסִ֑יף וְלֹא־ע֝֗וֹד תְּשׁוּרֶ֥נּוּ מְקוֹמֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

ʿayin šĕzāpattû wĕ- lōʾ tôsîp wĕ- lōʾ- ʿôd tĕšûrennû mĕqômô

Grammar Details

*ʿayin*: noun, feminine singular - eye
*šĕzāpattû*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it gazed at him
*wĕ-*: conjunction - and
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*tôsîp*: hifil imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it will add/continue
*lōʾ-*: negative particle - not
*ʿôd*: adverb - still/yet/again
*tĕšûrennû*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it will behold him
*mĕqômô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his place

Word Meanings

*ʿayin*: eye/sight
*šĕzāpattû*: gazed at him/looked upon him/glimpsed him
*tôsîp*: will add/will continue/will do again
*tĕšûrennû*: will behold him/will look at him/will see him
*mĕqômô*: his place/his location/his position

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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

Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
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.
Ps 37:10 : 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.
Ps 37:36 : 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
Job 20:7 : 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 27:3 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

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