Job 10:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַֽל־דַּ֭עְתְּךָ כִּי־לֹ֣א אֶרְשָׁ֑ע וְאֵ֖ין מִיָּדְךָ֣ מַצִּֽיל׃

Transliteration

upon daʿtəkā that not ʾeršāʿ and there is no from miyyādəkā maṣṣîl

Grammar Details

• *daʿtəkā*: noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your knowledge
• *ʾeršāʿ*: Qal imperfect, 1st singular - I am wicked
• *miyyādəkā*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - from your hand
• *maṣṣîl*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - deliverer

Word Meanings

• *daʿtəkā*: your knowledge/your understanding/your awareness
• *ʾeršāʿ*: I am wicked/I am guilty/I do wrong
• *maṣṣîl*: deliverer/rescuer/one who saves

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:39 : 39 See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
• Job 23:10 : 10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
• Job 23:13-14 : 13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul. 14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
• Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
• Job 31:14 : 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
• Job 31:35 : 35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
• Job 42:7 : 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
• Ps 1:6 : 6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
• Ps 7:3 : 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
• Ps 7:8-9 : 8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward. 9 O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
• Ps 17:3 : 3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
• Ps 26:1-5 : 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping. 2 Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart. 3 For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith. 4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men. 5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
• Ps 50:22 : 22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:
• Ps 139:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
• Ps 139:21-24 : 21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me? 22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me. 23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested: 24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
• Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?
• Hos 2:10 : 10 And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.
• John 10:28-30 : 28 And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand. 29 That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
• John 21:17 : 17 He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
• 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;