Job 30:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּבֵ֖ית מוֹעֵ֣ד לְכָל־חָֽי

Transliteration

For I yāḏaʿtî māweṯ You təšîḇēnî, and bêṯ môʿēḏ for all ḥāy

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *yāḏaʿtî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I know
• *māweṯ*: noun, masculine singular - death
• *təšîḇēnî*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - you will bring me back/return me
• *û-ḇêṯ*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular construct - and house of
• *môʿēḏ*: noun, masculine singular - appointed place/meeting
• *lə-ḵāl-ḥāy*: preposition with noun, masculine singular construct with adjective - for all living

Word Meanings

• *yāḏaʿtî*: I know/I am aware
• *māweṯ*: death/dying
• *təšîḇēnî*: bring me back/return me/restore me
• *bêṯ*: house/place/abode
• *môʿēḏ*: appointed place/meeting place/assembly
• *ḥāy*: living/alive

Referenced Verses

• Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Eccl 12:5-7 : 5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And {G2596} inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;
• 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
• Job 3:19 : 19 The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
• Job 9:22 : 22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
• Job 10:8 : 8 Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
• Job 14:5 : 5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
• Job 21:33 : 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
• Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
• Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.