Job 8:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־יְבַלְּעֶ֥נּוּ מִמְּקוֹמ֑וֹ וְכִ֥חֶשׁ בּ֝֗וֹ לֹ֣א רְאִיתִֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

If yĕballĕʿennû mimmĕqômô wĕ-ḵiḥeš bô lōʾ rĕʾîtîḵā

Grammar Details

*ʾim*: conditional particle - if
*yĕballĕʿennû*: piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - it swallows/destroys him
*mimmĕqômô*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - from his place
*wĕ-ḵiḥeš*: conjunction + piel perfect 3rd masculine singular - and it denies/disowns
*bô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in him
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*rĕʾîtîḵā*: qal perfect 1st common singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - I have seen you

Word Meanings

*yĕballĕʿennû*: swallow/destroy/devour
*māqôm*: place/spot/site
*kiḥēš*: deny/disown/deceive
*rāʾāh*: see/perceive/experience

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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
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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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 7:10 : 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
Ps 37:36 : 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction. 19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
Job 20:9 : 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
Ps 37:10 : 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

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