Job 3:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַ֭חַד אֲסִירִ֣ים שַׁאֲנָ֑נוּ לֹ֥א שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ ק֣וֹל נֹגֵֽשׂ׃

Transliteration

yaḥad ʾăsîrîm šaʾănānû lōʾ šāməʿû qôl nōgēś

Grammar Details

*yaḥad*: adverb - together
*ʾăsîrîm*: noun, masculine plural - prisoners
*šaʾănānû*: verb, Pilpel perfect, 3rd common plural - they are at ease
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*šāməʿû*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they hear
*qôl*: noun, masculine singular construct - voice of
*nōgēś*: verb, Qal participle, masculine singular - one who drives/taskmaster

Word Meanings

*yaḥad*: together/alike/all of them
*ʾăsîrîm*: prisoners/captives/those bound
*šaʾănānû*: they are at ease/they are tranquil/they are secure
*šāməʿû*: they hear/they listen to/they obey
*nōgēś*: taskmaster/oppressor/slave driver

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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 39:7 : 7 He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.
Isa 14:3-4 : 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Exod 5:6-8 : 6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Exod 5:15-19 : 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah. 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, [your] daily tasks.
Judg 4:3 : 3 And the sons of Israel cried unto Jehovah: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel.

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