Job 9:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

He is wise in heart, & mighty in stregth: who hath bene fierce against him & hath prospered?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֲכַ֣ם לֵ֭בָב וְאַמִּ֣יץ כֹּ֑חַ מִֽי־הִקְשָׁ֥ה אֵ֝לָ֗יו וַיִּשְׁלָֽם׃

Transliteration

ḥăkam lēbāb wə-ʾammîṣ kōaḥ mî-hiqšâ ʾēlāyw wə-yišlām

Grammar Details

• *ḥăkam*: adjective masculine singular construct - wise of
• *lēbāb*: masculine singular noun - heart/mind
• *wə-ʾammîṣ*: conjunction + adjective masculine singular construct - and mighty of
• *kōaḥ*: masculine singular noun - strength/power
• *mî-hiqšâ*: interrogative pronoun + hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - who has hardened
• *ʾēlāyw*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - against him
• *wə-yišlām*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and has remained safe/has prospered

Word Meanings

• *ḥăkam*: wise, skilled, experienced
• *lēbāb*: heart, mind, inner person
• *ʾammîṣ*: strong, mighty, powerful
• *kōaḥ*: strength, power, might
• *hiqšâ*: to harden, be stubborn, be obstinate
• *yišlām*: to be complete, be safe, be at peace

Referenced Verses

• Job 36:5 : 5 Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is mighty and valiant of courage.
• Job 9:19 : 19 If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?
• Prov 29:1 : 1 A man that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked, shall suddenly be destroyed and can not be cured.
• Dan 2:20 : 20 And Daniel answered and sayde, The Name of God be praysed for euer and euer: for wisedome and strength are his,
• Dan 4:34-37 : 34 (4:31) And at the ende of these dayes I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me, and I gaue thankes vnto the most High, and I praysed and honoured him that liueth for euer, whose power is an euerlasting power, and his kingdome is from generation to generation. 35 (4:32) And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say vnto him, What doest thou? 36 (4:33) At the same time was mine vnderstanding restored vnto me, and I returned to the honour of my kingdome: my glory and my beautie was restored vnto me, and my counsellours and my princes sought vnto me, and I was established in my kingdome, and my glory was augmented toward me. 37 (4:34) Now therefore I Nebuchad-nezzar prayse and extoll & magnifie the King of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, & his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pride, he is able to abase.
• Dan 5:20-30 : 20 But when his heart was puft vp, and his minde hardened in pride, hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his honour from him. 21 And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, till he knewe, that the most high God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appointeth ouer it, whomsoeuer he pleaseth. 22 And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things, 23 But hast lift thy selfe vp against the Lorde of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither heare, nor vnderstand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy wayes, him hast thou not glorified. 24 Then was the palme of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing. 25 And this is the writing that he hath written, Mene, Mene, Tekel Vpharsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing, Mene, God hath nombred thy kingdome, and hath finished it. 27 Tekel, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light. 28 Peres, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then at the commaundement of Belshazzar they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chaine of golde about his necke, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdome. 30 The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!
• 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?
• Eph 1:8 : 8 Whereby he hath bene aboundant toward vs in all wisedome and vnderstanding,
• Eph 1:19 : 19 And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power toward vs, which beleeue, according to the working of his mightie power,
• Eph 3:10 : 10 To the intent, that nowe vnto principalities and powers in heauenly places, might be knowen by the Church the manifolde wisedome of God,
• Eph 3:20 : 20 Vnto him therefore that is able to do exceeding aboundantly aboue all that we aske or thinke, according to the power that worketh in vs,
• Jude 1:24-25 : 24 Nowe vnto him that is able to keepe you, that ye fall not, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glorie with ioy, 25 That is, to God only wise, our Sauiour, be glorie, and maiestie, and dominion, and power, both nowe and for euer, Amen.
• Job 11:6 : 6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.
• Job 12:13 : 13 With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
• Job 15:23-27 : 23 He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande. 24 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell. 25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie. 26 Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde. 27 Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
• Exod 9:14-17 : 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues vpon thine heart, and vpon thy seruants, and vpon thy people, that thou mayest knowe that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth. 16 And in deede, for this cause haue I appointed thee, to shewe my power in thee, and to declare my Name throughout all the world. 17 Yet thou exaltest thy selfe against my people, and lettest them not goe.
• Exod 14:17-18 : 17 And I, beholde, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may followe them, and I wil get me honour vpon Pharaoh, & vpon all his host, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen. 18 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lorde, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, & vpon his horsemen.
• 2 Chr 13:12 : 12 And behold, this God is with vs, as a captaine, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets, to crie an alarme against you. O yee children of Israel, fight not against the Lorde God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.
• Job 6:10 : 10 Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.
• Job 40:9 : 9 (40:4) Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
• Ps 104:24 : 24 O Lord, howe manifolde are thy workes! in wisdome hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
• Ps 136:5 : 5 Which by his wisedome made the heauens: for his mercie endureth for euer:
• Prov 28:14 : 14 Blessed is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart, shal fall into euill.