Job 33:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִ֣כֶל בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מֵרֹ֑אִי *ושפי **וְשֻׁפּ֥וּ עַ֝צְמוֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א רֻאּֽוּ׃

Transliteration

yîkel bəśārô mērō'î wəšuppû 'aṣmôtāyw lō' ru'û

Grammar Details

*yîkel*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it wastes away
*bəśārô*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his flesh
*mērō'î*: preposition + noun - from sight
*wəšuppû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person plural passive - and are laid bare
*'aṣmôtāyw*: noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his bones
*lō'*: negative particle - not
*ru'û*: qal perfect, 3rd person plural passive - they are seen

Word Meanings

*yîkel*: it wastes away/it is consumed/it disappears
*bəśārô*: his flesh/his body/his skin
*mērō'î*: from sight/from seeing/from being seen
*šuppû*: are laid bare/are exposed/stick out
*'aṣmôtāyw*: his bones/his frame/his skeleton
*ru'û*: they are seen/they are visible/they appear

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 19:20 : 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Prov 5:11 : 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Ps 22:15-17 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.
Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {H5542}
Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Job 7:5 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
Job 13:28 : 28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth - eaten.
Job 14:20 : 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 14:22 : 22 But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.
Job 16:8 : 8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

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