Job 31:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמָ֣ה אֶֽ֭עֱשֶׂה כִּֽי־יָק֣וּם אֵ֑ל וְכִֽי־יִ֝פְקֹ֗ד מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃

Transliteration

And-mâ ʾeʿĕśeh when-yāqûm ʾēl and-when-yipqōd mâ ʾăšîḇennû

Grammar Details

• *mâ*: interrogative pronoun - what
• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will do
• *yāqûm*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he rises
• *ʾēl*: noun, masculine singular - God
• *yipqōd*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he visits/examines
• *ʾăšîḇennû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - I will answer him

Word Meanings

• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: I will do/I would do/I could do
• *yāqûm*: rises/stands up/takes action
• *ʾēl*: God/deity
• *yipqōd*: visits/inspects/examines
• *ʾăšîḇennû*: I will answer him/I would respond to him

Referenced Verses

• Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
• Job 10:2 : 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• Ps 7:6 : 6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
• Ps 9:12 : 12 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
• Ps 9:19 : 19 Arise, O Jehovah; Let not man prevail: Let the nations be judged in thy sight.
• Ps 10:12-15 : 12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]? 14 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
• Ps 44:21 : 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Ps 76:9 : 9 When God arose to judgment, To save all the meek of the earth. {H5542}
• Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
• Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
• Zech 2:13 : 13 Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah; for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.
• Mark 7:2 : 2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: {G2532} mercy glorieth against judgment.