Job 31:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹא־נָתַ֣תִּי לַחֲטֹ֣א חִכִּ֑י לִשְׁאֹ֖ל בְּאָלָ֣ה נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

Transliteration

And-not-nātattî to-ḥăṭōʾ ḥikkî to-šəʾōl in-ʾālâ napšô

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I gave/allowed
• *ḥăṭōʾ*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to sin
• *ḥikkî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my palate/mouth
• *šəʾōl*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to ask/request
• *ʾālâ*: noun, feminine singular - curse/oath
• *napšô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his life/soul

Word Meanings

• *nātattî*: I gave/I allowed/I permitted
• *ḥăṭōʾ*: to sin/to err
• *ḥikkî*: my palate/my mouth/my speech
• *šəʾōl*: to ask/to request/to demand
• *ʾālâ*: curse/oath
• *napšô*: his life/his soul/his being

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:14 : 14 Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.
• 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for {G3754} hereunto {G5124} were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
• Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
• Jas 3:9-9 : 9 Therewith {G846} bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith {G846} curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
• 1 Pet 2:22-23 : 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:
• Exod 23:4-5 : 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release [it] with him.
• Eccl 5:2 : 2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
• Eccl 5:6 : 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
• Matt 5:22 : 22 but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.
• Matt 5:43-44 : 43 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: 44 but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;
• Matt 12:36 : 36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.