Job 34:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִ֭מְּלֹךְ אָדָ֥ם חָנֵ֗ף מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי עָֽם׃

Transliteration

mimməlōk ʾādām ḥānēp mimmōqəšê ʿām

Grammar Details

• *mimməlōk*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - from reigning
• *ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ḥānēp*: adjective, masculine singular - godless/profane
• *mimmōqəšê*: preposition + masculine plural construct noun - from snares of
• *ʿām*: masculine singular noun - people

Word Meanings

• *mimməlōk*: from reigning/lest rule/to prevent ruling
• *ʾādām*: man/person/human
• *ḥānēp*: godless/profane/impious/hypocrite
• *mōqəšê*: snares of/traps for/entanglements by
• *ʿām*: people/folk/nation

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 12:28-30 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even unto Dan.
• 2 Kgs 21:9 : 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.
• Job 34:21 : 21 For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.
• Ps 12:8 : 8 The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
• Prov 29:2-9 : 2 When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh. 3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth [his] substance. 4 The king by justice establisheth the land; But he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it. 5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps. 6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; But the righteous doth sing and rejoice. 7 The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know [it]. 8 Scoffers {H582} set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath. 9 If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest. 10 The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect; And as for the upright, they seek his life. 11 A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it. 12 If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.
• Eccl 9:18 : 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
• Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
• Hos 13:11 : 11 I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
• Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
• 2 Thess 2:4-9 : 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he {G5613} {G2316} sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only [there is] one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; 9 [None even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
• Rev 13:3-4 : 3 And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke {G4127} was healed: and the whole earth wondered {G1722} after the beast; 4 and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to war with him?
• Rev 13:11-14 : 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell {G1722} therein to worship the first beast, whose {G846} death-stroke {G4127} was healed. 13 And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.