Job 34:33

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַֽמֵעִמְּךָ֬ יְשַׁלְמֶ֨נָּה כִּֽי־מָאַ֗סְתָּ כִּי־אַתָּ֣ה תִבְחַ֣ר וְלֹא־אָ֑נִי וּֽמַה־יָדַ֥עְתָּ דַבֵּֽר׃

Transliteration

Hameʿimmĕḵā yĕšallĕmennāh kî-māʾastā kî-ʾattāh tibḥar wĕlōʾ-ʾānî ûmah-yādaʿtā dabbēr.

Grammar Details

*Hameʿimmĕḵā*: interrogative particle + preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - is it from you?
*yĕšallĕmennāh*: Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - he will complete/repay it
*kî*: conjunction - for/because/that
*māʾastā*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have refused/rejected
*ʾattāh*: 2nd masculine singular pronoun - you
*tibḥar*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will choose
*wĕlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
*ʾānî*: 1st singular pronoun - I
*ûmah*: conjunction + interrogative pronoun - and what
*yādaʿtā*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have known
*dabbēr*: Piel imperative, masculine singular - speak

Word Meanings

*Hameʿimmĕḵā*: Is it from you?/According to your judgment?
*yĕšallĕmennāh*: he will repay it/complete it/fulfill it
*māʾastā*: you have refused/rejected/despised
*tibḥar*: you will choose/select/desire
*yādaʿtā*: you have known/understood/recognized
*dabbēr*: speak/tell/declare

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 33:32 : 32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Ps 135:6 : 6 Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
Prov 11:31 : 31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Matt 20:12-15 : 12 saying, These last have spent [but] one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat. 13 But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a shilling? 14 Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Rom 9:20 : 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
Rom 11:35 : 35 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you, 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
Heb 2:2 : 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
Heb 11:26 : 26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.
Job 34:11 : 11 For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job 41:11 : 11 Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; 31 If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.
Job 9:12 : 12 Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
Job 15:31 : 31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
Job 18:4 : 4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Job 33:5 : 5 If thou canst, answer thou me; Set [thy words] in order before me, stand forth.

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