Job 21:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כַּמָּ֤ה ׀ נֵר־רְשָׁ֘עִ֤ים יִדְעָ֗ךְ וְיָבֹ֣א עָלֵ֣ימוֹ אֵידָ֑ם חֲ֝בָלִ֗ים יְחַלֵּ֥ק בְּאַפּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

kammâ nēr-rəšāʿîm yidʿāk wə-yābōʾ ʿālêmô ʾêdām ḥăbālîm yəḥallēq bə-ʾappô

Grammar Details

• *kammâ*: interrogative adverb - how often
• *nēr*: noun masculine singular construct - lamp of
• *rəšāʿîm*: noun masculine plural - wicked ones
• *yidʿāk*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is extinguished
• *wə-yābōʾ*: conjunctive waw + Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and comes
• *ʿālêmô*: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix (poetic form) - upon them
• *ʾêdām*: noun masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their calamity
• *ḥăbālîm*: noun masculine plural - pains/pangs/destructions
• *yəḥallēq*: Piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he distributes/apportions
• *bə-ʾappô*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his anger

Word Meanings

• *nēr*: lamp/light
• *dāʿak*: to be extinguished/go out
• *bôʾ*: to come/go/enter
• *ʾêd*: calamity/distress/destruction
• *ḥebel*: pain/pang/destruction/cord
• *ḥālaq*: to divide/apportion/distribute
• *ʾap*: nose/anger/wrath

Referenced Verses

• Job 18:5-6 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
• Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
• Ps 32:10 : 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.
• Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
• Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
• Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
• Prov 24:20 : 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
• Matt 25:8 : 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.
• Luke 12:46 : 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, {G4328} and in an hour when he {G1097} knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint {G5087} his portion with the unfaithful.
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation, 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;