Job 36:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I wyll open vnto thee yet farre higher knowledge, and wil ascribe righteousnesse vnto my maker.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶשָּׂ֣א דֵ֭עִי לְמֵרָח֑וֹק וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י אֶֽתֵּֽן־צֶֽדֶק׃

Transliteration

ʾeśśāʾ dēʿî lə-mērāḥôq û-lə-p̄ōʿălî ʾettēn-ṣedeq

Grammar Details

• *ʾeśśāʾ*: Qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will lift up/carry
• *dēʿî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st singular possessive suffix - my knowledge
• *lə-mērāḥôq*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - to a distance/far
• *û-lə-p̄ōʿălî*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular with 1st singular possessive suffix - and to my Maker
• *ʾettēn-ṣedeq*: Qal imperfect, 1st singular + noun, masculine singular - I will give/ascribe righteousness

Word Meanings

• *dēʿî*: my knowledge/understanding/opinion
• *mērāḥôq*: distance/far away/distant place
• *p̄ōʿălî*: my maker/my creator/the one who made me
• *ṣedeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:4 : 4 Perfect is the worke of the most mightie God, for all his wayes are iudgement: He is a God of trueth, without wickednesse, righteous and iust is he.
• Ps 11:7 : 7 For God most righteous, loueth righteousnes: his countenaunce wyll beholde the iust.
• Ps 145:17 : 17 God is righteous in all his wayes: and holy in all his workes.
• Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacke wisdome, let him aske of God, that geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teeth: and it shalbe geuen hym.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Euery good geuyng, and euery perfect gyft is from aboue, and cometh downe from the father of lyghtes, with who is no variablenes, neither shadow of turnyng.
• Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaseable, gentle, and easie to be entreated, full of mercie and good fruites, without iudgyng, without simulation:
• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God, and the song of the lambe, saying: Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie, iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes.
• Prov 2:4-5 : 4 If thou seekest for her as for siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures: 5 Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lorde, and finde the knowledge of God.
• Jer 12:1 : 1 O Lorde thou art more righteous, then that I shoulde dispute with thee: neuerthelesse, let me talke with thee in thynges reasonable. Howe happeneth it that the way of the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so well with them which without any shame offend and liue in wickednesse,
• Dan 9:7 : 7 O Lorde, righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee, vnto vs open shame, as is came to passe this day vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwel at Hierusalem yea vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye throughout all the landes whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences that they haue done against thee.
• Dan 9:14 : 14 Therfore hath the Lord watched vpon the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lorde our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth: for we would not hearken vnto his voyce.
• Matt 2:1-2 : 1 When Iesus was borne in Bethlehem, a citie of Iurie, in the dayes of Herode the kyng: beholde, there came wise men from the east to Hierusalem, 2 Saying: Where is he that is borne kyng of Iewes? For we haue seene his starre in the east, and are come to worship hym.
• Matt 12:42 : 42 The Queene of the south shall ryse in the iudgement, with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth, to heare the wisdome of Solomon. And beholde, in this place is one greater then Solomon.
• Acts 8:27-40 : 27 And he arose, & went on: and behold a man of Ethiopia, an Eunuch, & of great auctoritie with Candace, Queene of the Ethiopias, & had the rule of all her treasure, came to Hierusale for to worship. 28 And as he returned home agayne, sittyng in his charet, he read Esaias the prophete. 29 Then the spirite said vnto Philip: Go neare, & ioyne thy selfe to yonder charet. 30 And Philip ran thither to him, & heard hym reade the prophete Esaias, & saide: vnderstandest thou what thou readest? 31 And he said: how can I, except I had a guyde? And he desired Philip that he woulde come vp, and sit with hym. 32 The tenour of the scripture which he read, was this: He was ledde as a sheepe to the slaughter, & lyke a lambe dumbe before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. 33 In his humilitie, his iudgement is exalted: But who shall declare his generation? For his lyfe is taken from the earth. 34 And the Eunuche aunswered Philip, and sayde: I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophete this? Of hym selfe, or of some other man? 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached vnto hym Iesus. 36 And as they went on their way, they came vnto a certayne water, and the Eunuche sayde: See, here is water, what doth let me to be baptized? 37 Philip sayde vnto hym If thou beleuest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he aunswered, and saide: I beleue that Iesus Christe is the sonne of God. 38 And he commaunded the charet to stande styll: and they went downe both into the water, both Philip and also the Eunuche: and he baptized hym. 39 And assoone as they were come out of the water, the spirite of ye Lorde caught away Philip, that the Eunuche sawe hym no more. And he went on his way reioycyng. 40 But Philip was founde at Azotus. And he walked throughout the countrey, preachyng in all the cities, tyll he came to Cesarea.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 Whom God hath set foorth to be a propitiatio, through fayth in his blood, to declare his ryghteousnes, in that he forgeueth the sinnes that are past, 26 Which God dyd suffer, to shew at this tyme his righteousnes, that he might be iuste, & the iustifier of hym which beleueth on Iesus.
• Rom 9:14 : 14 What shall we say then? Is there any vnrighteousnes with God? God forbid.
• Rom 10:6-8 : 6 But the ryghteousnesse which is of fayth, speaketh on this wise: Say not thou in thyne heart, who shall ascende into heauen? That is, to fetch Christe downe from aboue. 7 Either who shall descende into the deepe? That is, to fetch vp Christe agayne from the dead. 8 But what sayth he? The worde is nye thee, euen in thy mouth, and in thy heart. This same is the worde of faith, which we preache
• Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right?
• Job 28:12-13 : 12 Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding? 13 Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.
• Job 28:20-24 : 20 Whence then commeth wysdome? and where is the place of vnderstanding? 21 She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing, yea & from the foules of the ayre. 22 Destruction and death say, We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares. 23 But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place. 24 For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen.
• Job 32:2 : 2 But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God.
• Job 32:8 : 8 Euery man no doubt hath a mynde, but it is the inspiration of the almightie that geueth vnderstanding.
• Job 34:5 : 5 And why? Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement.
• Job 34:10-12 : 10 Therfore hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding: farre be it from God that he shoulde meddle with wickednesse, & farre be it from the almightie that he shoulde meddle with vnrighteous dealing. 11 For he shall rewarde man after his workes, and cause euery man to finde according to his wayes. 12 Sure it is that God wil not do wickedly, neither wyll the almightie paruert iudgement.
• Job 37:23 : 23 It is the almightie, we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, and aboundaunt in iustice: he afflicteth not.