Job 30:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי אֶל־ר֖‪[d]‬וּחַ תַּרְכִּיבֵ֑נִי וּ֝תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִי *תשוה **תּוּשִׁיָּֽה

Transliteration

You tiśśāʾēnî to rûaḥ, You tarkîḇēnî and You ûṯəmōḡəḡēnî tûšiyyâ

Grammar Details

*tiśśāʾēnî*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - you lift me up
*ʾel-rûaḥ*: preposition with noun, feminine singular - to wind
*tarkîḇēnî*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - you cause me to ride
*ûṯəmōḡəḡēnî*: conjunction with verb, poel imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - and you melt me/dissolve me
*tûšiyyâ*: noun, feminine singular - wisdom/sound wisdom

Word Meanings

*tiśśāʾēnî*: lift me up/carry me away/bear me off
*rûaḥ*: wind/spirit/breath
*tarkîḇēnî*: cause me to ride/mount me upon/make me ride
*ûṯəmōḡəḡēnî*: melt me/dissolve me/cause me to melt away
*tûšiyyâ*: wisdom/sound wisdom/success [text note: variant *tašweh* (you level/equalize)]

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 27:21 : 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Ps 18:10 : 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
Ps 104:3 : 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Jer 4:11-12 : 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; 12 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.
Ezek 5:2 : 2 A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Hos 4:19 : 19 The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Job 9:17 : 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job 21:18 : 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

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