Job 31:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־לֹ֣א אָ֭מְרוּ מְתֵ֣י אָהֳלִ֑י מִֽי־יִתֵּ֥ן מִ֝בְּשָׂר֗וֹ לֹ֣א נִשְׂבָּֽע׃

Transliteration

If-not ʾāmərû mətê ʾāholî who-yittēn from-bəśārô lōʾ niśbāʿ

Grammar Details

*ʾāmərû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they said
*mətê*: noun, masculine plural construct - men of
*ʾāholî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my tent
*yittēn*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he gives
*bəśārô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his flesh
*niśbāʿ*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person plural - we are satisfied

Word Meanings

*mətê*: men/people
*ʾāholî*: my tent/my household
*mî-yittēn*: who would give/oh that
*bəśārô*: his flesh/his meat
*niśbāʿ*: are satisfied/have had enough

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 24:4 : 4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold, the day of which Jehovah said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thy hand, and thou shalt do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
1 Sam 24:10 : 10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee; but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Jehovah's anointed.
1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
2 Sam 16:9-9 : 9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. 10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curseth, and because Jehovah hath said unto him, Curse David; who then shall say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
2 Sam 19:21-22 : 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah's anointed? 22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
Job 19:22 : 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 22:7 : 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Ps 35:25 : 25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Prov 1:11-12 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Prov 1:18 : 18 And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Jer 40:15-16 : 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
Mic 3:2-3 : 2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Luke 9:54-55 : 54 And when his disciples James and John saw [this], they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them.
Luke 22:50-51 : 50 And a certain one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his right ear. 51 But Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye [them] thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.

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