Job 6:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַאִ֬ם אֵ֣ין עֶזְרָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה נִדְּחָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

Transliteration

haʾim ʾên ʿezrātî bî wətušiyyâ niddəḥâ mimmennî

Grammar Details

*haʾim*: interrogative + particle - is it not
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
*ʿezrātî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my help
*bî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - in me
*wətušiyyâ*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and success/wisdom/sound judgment
*niddəḥâ*: Niphal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - is driven away
*mimmennî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - from me

Word Meanings

*ʿezrâ*: help/assistance
*tušiyyâ*: wisdom/success/ability/sound judgment
*nādaḥ*: to drive away/banish/impel

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 12:2-3 : 2 No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 13:2 : 2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job 19:28 : 28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;
Job 26:2 : 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Gal 6:4 : 4 But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

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