Job 36:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִֽם־יִשְׁמְע֗וּ וְֽיַעֲ֫בֹ֥דוּ יְכַלּ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֣ם בַּטּ֑וֹב וּ֝שְׁנֵיהֶ֗ם בַּנְּעִימִֽים׃

Transliteration

ʾim-yišməʿû wə-yaʿăbōdû yəkallû yəmêhem baṭṭôb û-šənêhem bannəʿîmîm

Grammar Details

• *ʾim-yišməʿû*: conditional particle + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - if they listen/obey
• *wə-yaʿăbōdû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and serve
• *yəkallû*: Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will spend/complete
• *yəmêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their days
• *baṭṭôb*: preposition + definite article + noun/adjective, masculine singular - in prosperity/good
• *û-šənêhem*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their years
• *bannəʿîmîm*: preposition + definite article + adjective, masculine plural - in pleasantness

Word Meanings

• *yišməʿû*: listen/obey/hear
• *yaʿăbōdû*: serve/worship/work
• *yəkallû*: spend/complete/finish
• *yəmêhem*: their days/lifetime
• *ṭôb*: good/prosperity/well-being
• *šənêhem*: their years
• *nəʿîmîm*: pleasantness/delight/pleasant things

Referenced Verses

• Jer 7:23 : 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
• Jer 26:13 : 13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
• Deut 4:30 : 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice:
• Job 11:13-19 : 13 If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents. 15 Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 16 For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away, 17 And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning. 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; Yea, thou shalt search [about thee], and shalt take thy rest in safety. 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
• Job 21:11 : 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
• Job 22:21 : 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.
• Job 22:23 : 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
• Job 42:12 : 12 So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
• Eccl 9:2-3 : 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
• Isa 1:19 : 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
• Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, {G1161} ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• Jas 5:5 : 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts {G5613} in a day of slaughter.
• Rev 18:7 : 7 How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.