Job 11:20

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה וּ֭מָנוֹס אָבַ֣ד מִנְהֶ֑ם וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗ם מַֽפַּח־נָֽפֶשׁ׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿenē rəšaʿim tiklēnah u-manos ʾavad minhēm wə-tiqwatam mappaḥ-napeš

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʿenē*: conjunction + noun feminine dual construct - and eyes of
• *rəšaʿim*: adjective masculine plural - wicked ones
• *tiklēnah*: qal imperfect 3rd feminine plural - they will fail
• *u-manos*: conjunction + noun masculine singular - and refuge
• *ʾavad*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - has perished
• *minhēm*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - from them
• *wə-tiqwatam*: conjunction + noun feminine singular construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their hope
• *mappaḥ*: noun masculine singular construct - breathing out of
• *napeš*: noun feminine singular - soul/life

Word Meanings

• *ʿenē*: eyes/sight
• *rəšaʿim*: wicked ones/evil people/unrighteous
• *tiklēnah*: fail/be consumed/waste away
• *manos*: refuge/escape/flight
• *ʾavad*: perish/be destroyed/be lost
• *tiqwatam*: their hope/their expectation
• *mappaḥ*-*napeš*: breathing out of soul/exhalation of life/expiring

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
• Job 17:5 : 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
• Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
• Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
• Prov 10:24 : 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
• Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Lam 4:17 : 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
• Amos 2:14 : 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
• Amos 5:19-20 : 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
• Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
• Luke 16:23-26 : 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
• Heb 2:3 : 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• Job 18:14 : 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
• Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
• Job 27:22 : 22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
• Job 8:13-14 : 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
• Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.