Job 40:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲ֭רֹב עִם־שַׁדַּ֣י יִסּ֑וֹר מוֹכִ֖יחַ אֱל֣וֹהַּ יַעֲנֶֽנָּה׃ פ

Transliteration

hă-rōb ʿim-Šadday yissōr mōkîaḥ ʾĕlōahh yaʿănennâ

Grammar Details

• *hă-rōb*: interrogative particle + infinitive/noun - contend/contention
• *ʿim*: preposition - with
• *Šadday*: divine name - Almighty
• *yissōr*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he contends/disputes
• *mōkîaḥ*: hiphil participle, masculine singular - one who reproves/argues
• *ʾĕlōahh*: noun, masculine singular - God
• *yaʿănennâ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - he will answer it

Word Meanings

• *rōb*: contention, dispute, argument
• *yissōr*: to contend, argue, dispute
• *mōkîaḥ*: reprover, disputer, arguer
• *ʾĕlōahh*: God, deity
• *yaʿănennâ*: to answer, respond, reply

Referenced Verses

• Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
• Job 9:3 : 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
• Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped? 10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with? 11 The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
• Isa 50:8 : 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
• Ezek 18:2 : 2 Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
• Matt 20:11 : 11 And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
• Rom 9:19-23 : 19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose? 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so? 21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? 22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction: 23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
• Rom 11:34-36 : 34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes? 35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
• 1 Cor 2:16 : 16 For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.
• 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?
• Job 9:17-18 : 17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause. 18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
• Job 9:32-35 : 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge. 33 There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us. 34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me: 35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.
• Job 10:3-7 : 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers? 4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees? 5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his, 6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing, 7 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?
• Job 10:14-17 : 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: 15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: 17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
• Job 13:21-27 : 21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you. 22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer. 23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them. 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters? 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way? 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
• Job 14:16-17 : 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. 17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
• Job 16:11-21 : 11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. 16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark; 17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean. 18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place! 19 Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high. 20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping, 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
• Job 19:6-9 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. 9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. 11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
• Job 27:2 : 2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
• Job 30:21 : 21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
• Eccl 6:10 : 10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
• Isa 40:14 : 14 Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?
• Job 3:11-12 : 11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath? 12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
• Job 3:20 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
• Job 3:23 : 23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
• Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
• Job 7:19-21 : 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space? 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself? 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.