Job 9:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִם־צָ֭דַקְתִּי לֹ֣א אֶעֱנֶ֑ה לִ֝מְשֹׁפְטִ֗י אֶתְחַנָּֽן׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer ʾim-ṣādaqtî lōʾ ʾeʿĕneh li-mšōpṭî ʾetḥannān

Grammar Details

• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
• *ʾim-ṣādaqtî*: conditional particle + qal perfect 1st person singular - though I am righteous
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾeʿĕneh*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will answer
• *li-mšōpṭî*: preposition + qal participle masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - to my judge
• *ʾetḥannān*: hithpael imperfect 1st person singular - I must plead for mercy

Word Meanings

• *ʾim-ṣādaqtî*: to be righteous, be just, be in the right
• *ʾeʿĕneh*: to answer, respond, reply
• *mšōpṭî*: judge, one who judges me
• *ʾetḥannān*: to seek favor, implore, plead for mercy

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:15 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.
• Job 8:5 : 5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
• Job 10:2 : 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• 1 Kgs 8:38-39 : 38 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 39 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling - place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
• 2 Chr 33:13 : 13 And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
• Job 5:8 : 8 But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
• Job 22:27 : 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee; And thou shalt pay thy vows.
• Job 23:7 : 7 There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
• Job 34:31-32 : 31 For hath any said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]: 32 That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
• Dan 9:3 : 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• Dan 9:18 : 18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake.
• 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby {G1722} justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously: