Job 31:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־אֶ֭שְׂמַח בְּפִ֣יד מְשַׂנְאִ֑י וְ֝הִתְעֹרַ֗רְתִּי כִּֽי־מְצָ֥אוֹ רָֽע׃

Transliteration

If-ʾeśmaḥ in-pîd məśanʾî and-hitʿōrartî when-found-him rāʿ

Grammar Details

• *ʾeśmaḥ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I rejoice
• *pîd*: noun, masculine singular construct - calamity of
• *məśanʾî*: verb, piel participle, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - one hating me
• *hitʿōrartî*: verb, hithpolel perfect, 1st person singular - I was excited/stirred up
• *rāʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - evil/bad

Word Meanings

• *ʾeśmaḥ*: rejoice/be glad/delight
• *pîd*: calamity/ruin/disaster
• *məśanʾî*: one hating me/my enemy
• *hitʿōrartî*: I was excited/I was stirred up/I was aroused
• *rāʿ*: evil/misfortune/disaster

Referenced Verses

• Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; [And] he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
• Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown; 18 Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
• Ps 35:13-14 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
• Ps 35:25-26 : 25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
• 2 Sam 1:12 : 12 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
• 2 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings. 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
• 2 Sam 16:5-8 : 5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and cursed still as he came. 6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow: 8 Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art [taken] in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.
• Obad 1:12 : 12 But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.