Job 15:30

King James Version 1611 (Original)

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־יָסוּר מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ יֹנַקְתּוֹ תְּיַבֵּשׁ שַׁלְהָבֶת וְיָסוּר בְּרוּחַ פִּיו

Transliteration

lōʾ-yāsûr minnî-ḥōšeḵ yōnaqtô təyabbēš šalhāḇet wə-yāsûr bərûaḥ pîw

Grammar Details

• *lōʾ-yāsûr*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will not depart
• *minnî-ḥōšeḵ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from darkness
• *yōnaqtô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his shoot
• *təyabbēš*: piel imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - will dry up
• *šalhāḇet*: noun, feminine singular - flame
• *wə-yāsûr*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he will depart
• *bərûaḥ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - by the breath of
• *pîw*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his mouth

Word Meanings

• *sûr*: to turn aside, depart, remove
• *ḥōšeḵ*: darkness, obscurity
• *yôneqet*: shoot, branch, sucker
• *yāḇēš*: to be dry, dried up, withered
• *šalhāḇet*: flame, blaze
• *rûaḥ*: breath, wind, spirit
• *peh*: mouth, opening, edge

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:9 : 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
• Job 15:22 : 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
• Job 20:26 : 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
• Job 22:20 : 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
• Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• Isa 30:33 : 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
• Ezek 15:4-7 : 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 20:47-48 : 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
• Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 22:13 : 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Mark 9:43-49 : 43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
• 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
• Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• Rev 19:15 : 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
• Job 18:5-6 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
• Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
• Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
• Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.