Psalms 10:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָ֘חִ֤ילוּ *דרכו **דְרָכָ֨יו ׀ בְּכָל־עֵ֗ת מָר֣וֹם מִ֭שְׁפָּטֶיךָ מִנֶּגְדּ֑וֹ כָּל־צ֝וֹרְרָ֗יו יָפִ֥יחַ בָּהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

yāḥîlû dĕrākāyw bĕkol-ʿēt mārôm mišpāṭeykā minnegdô kol-ṣôrĕrāyw yāpîaḥ bāhem

Grammar Details

• *yāḥîlû*: qal imperfect 3rd person plural - they are stable/endure/prosper
• *dĕrākāyw*: noun feminine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his ways
• *bĕkol-ʿēt*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct + noun feminine singular - in all time
• *mārôm*: noun masculine singular - height/high place
• *mišpāṭeykā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your judgments
• *minnegdô*: preposition + preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - from before him
• *kol-ṣôrĕrāyw*: noun masculine singular construct + qal participle masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - all his adversaries
• *yāpîaḥ*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he puffs at/blows at
• *bāhem*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - at them

Word Meanings

• *yāḥîlû*: endure/be firm/prosper/be stable
• *dĕrākāyw*: ways/paths/journeys
• *ʿēt*: time/season/period
• *mārôm*: height/high place/lofty place
• *mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/ordinance
• *minneged*: from before/away from/opposite
• *ṣôrĕrāyw*: adversaries/enemies/oppressors
• *yāpîaḥ*: puff/blow/snort at

Referenced Verses

• Ps 12:5 : 5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.
• Isa 26:11 : 11 Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.
• Isa 28:15 : 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
• Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
• Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
• Rom 3:16 : 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
• Gen 6:12 : 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
• Judg 9:27 : 27 And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
• Judg 9:38 : 38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, that thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.
• 2 Sam 5:6 : 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither; thinking, David cannot come in hither.
• 1 Kgs 20:10-11 : 10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. 11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on [his armor] boast himself as he that putteth it off.
• 1 Kgs 20:13 : 13 And, behold, a prophet came near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
• Ps 92:5-6 : 5 How great are thy works, O Jehovah! Thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:
• Prov 1:19 : 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Prov 2:13 : 13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
• Prov 2:15 : 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
• Prov 15:24 : 24 To the wise the way of life [goeth] upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.
• Prov 24:1 : 1 Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them:
• Isa 5:12 : 12 And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
• Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;