Job 8:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־תְמ֣וֹל אֲ֭נַחְנוּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע כִּ֤י צֵ֖ל יָמֵ֣ינוּ עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

For tĕmôl ʾănaḥnû wĕ-lōʾ nēdāʿ kî ṣēl yāmênû ʿălê-ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*tĕmôl*: adverb - yesterday/recently
*ʾănaḥnû*: personal pronoun 1st common plural - we
*wĕ-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
*nēdāʿ*: qal imperfect 1st common plural - we know
*ṣēl*: noun masculine singular construct - shadow of
*yāmênû*: noun masculine plural construct + 1st common plural suffix - our days
*ʿălê-ʾāreṣ*: preposition + noun feminine singular - upon earth

Word Meanings

*tĕmôl*: yesterday/recently/before
*nēdāʿ*: know/understand/perceive
*ṣēl*: shadow/shade/darkness
*yāmênû*: our days/lifetime
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground

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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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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

1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
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 90:4 : 4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

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