Job 5:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קְֽרָא־נָ֭א הֲיֵ֣שׁ עוֹנֶ֑ךָּ וְאֶל־מִ֖י מִקְּדֹשִׁ֣ים תִּפְנֶֽה׃

Transliteration

qerā-nā is yēš ʿōnekā wə-to-whom from-qedōšîm tifneh

Grammar Details

• *qerā-nā*: imperative, masculine singular with particle of entreaty - call now/please
• *yēš*: interrogative particle with existential particle - is there?
• *ʿōnekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your answerer/respondent
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *qedōšîm*: adjective used as noun, masculine plural - holy ones/saints
• *tifneh*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will turn/appeal

Word Meanings

• *qerā-nā*: call now/please/I pray thee
• *yēš*: there is/exists
• *ʿōnekā*: one who answers you/your respondent
• *qedōšîm*: holy ones/saints/angels
• *tifneh*: turn/appeal/look to

Referenced Verses

• Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
• Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
• Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, [And] Aaron the saint of Jehovah.
• Isa 41:1 : 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.
• Isa 41:21-23 : 21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
• Eph 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
• Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• Deut 33:2-3 : 2 And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them. 3 Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; [Every one] shall receive of thy words.
• Job 4:18 : 18 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:
• Job 15:8-9 : 8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.