Job 5:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְשֹׁ֣ד וּלְכָפָ֣ן תִּשְׂחָ֑ק וּֽמֵחַיַּ֥ת הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ אַל־תִּירָֽא׃

Transliteration

at-šōd û-at-kāfān tiśḥāq û-from-ḥayyat the-ʾāreṣ not-tîrāʾ

Grammar Details

*šōd*: noun, masculine singular - destruction/violence
*û*: conjunction - and
*kāfān*: noun, masculine singular - famine/hunger
*tiśḥāq*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will laugh
*ḥayyat*: noun, feminine singular construct - beast of
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the earth/land
*tîrāʾ*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will fear

Word Meanings

*šōd*: destruction/devastation
*kāfān*: famine/hunger
*tiśḥāq*: you will laugh/mock
*ḥayyat*: beast/animal/living creature of
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground
*tîrāʾ*: fear/be afraid

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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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Referenced Verses

Ezek 34:25 : 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Isa 35:9 : 9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:
Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.
2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
Ps 91:13 : 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.
Hos 2:18 : 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.

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