Job 24:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מֵ֘עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְנֶֽפֶשׁ־חֲלָלִ֥ים תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַ וֶ֝אֱל֗וֹהַּ לֹא־יָשִׂ֥ים תִּפְלָֽה

Transliteration

From ʿîr mətîm yinʾāqû wənepeš-ḥălālîm təšawwēaʿ weʾĕlôah lōʾ-yāśîm tiplâ

Grammar Details

*ʿîr*: noun feminine singular with preposition *min* - 'from city'
*mətîm*: noun masculine plural - 'men/mortals'
*yinʾāqû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they groan'
*wənepeš-ḥălālîm*: conjunction *wə* + noun feminine singular construct + noun masculine plural - 'and soul of wounded'
*təšawwēaʿ*: piel imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - 'cries out'
*weʾĕlôah*: conjunction *wə* + noun masculine singular - 'and God'
*lōʾ-yāśîm*: negative particle + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'does not set/place'
*tiplâ*: noun feminine singular - 'folly/unseemliness'

Word Meanings

*ʿîr*: city/town
*mətîm*: men/mortals/dying ones
*yinʾāqû*: groan/moan/cry
*nepeš-ḥălālîm*: soul of wounded/life of slain
*təšawwēaʿ*: cries out/cries for help
*ʾĕlôah*: God/deity
*yāśîm*: set/place/regard
*tiplâ*: folly/unseemliness/impropriety

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Eccl 4:1 : 1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Eccl 8:11-12 : 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
Mal 2:17 : 17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?
Mal 3:15 : 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
Rom 2:4-5 : 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;
Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
Exod 2:23-24 : 23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exod 22:27 : 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Job 9:23 : 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.
Ps 50:21 : 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
Ps 109:22 : 22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

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