Job 4:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹא־נִסַּ֣ע יִתְרָ֣ם בָּ֑ם יָ֝מ֗וּתוּ וְלֹ֣א בְחָכְמָֽה׃

Transliteration

Is not hălōʾ-nissaʿ yitrām in bām yāmûtû and not wə-lōʾ in bə-ḥāḵmāh

Grammar Details

*hălōʾ-nissaʿ*: interrogative particle + negative particle + Niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is not pulled up
*yitrām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their tent cord
*bām*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - in them
*yāmûtû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they die
*wə-lōʾ*: waw conjunction + negative particle - and not
*bə-ḥāḵmāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - in wisdom

Word Meanings

*nissaʿ*: to pull up/remove/journey
*yitrām*: their tent cord/excess/abundance
*yāmûtû*: to die/expire/perish
*ḥāḵmāh*: wisdom/skill/knowledge

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Referenced Verses

Job 36:12 : 12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
Job 8:22 : 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried. 23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {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 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.
Ps 49:20 : 20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.
Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isa 14:16 : 16 They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

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