Job 11:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃

Transliteration

badeyka mətim yaḥarishu wə-tilʿag wə-ʾen maklim

Grammar Details

*badeyka*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your idle talk/boasting
*mətim*: noun, masculine plural absolute - men/mortals
*yaḥarishu*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will be silent
*wə-tilʿag*: conjunction + qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you mock
*wə-ʾen*: conjunction + particle of negation - and there is no
*maklim*: hiphil participle masculine singular - one causing shame/rebuking

Word Meanings

*badeyka*: your idle talk/your vain words/your lies/your boasting
*mətim*: men/people/mortals
*yaḥarishu*: be silent/hold peace/be still
*tilʿag*: mock/scorn/deride
*maklim*: one who puts to shame/rebukes/reproaches

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 17:2 : 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 24:25 : 25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Ps 35:16 : 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Ps 83:16 : 16 Fill{H8761)} their faces with shame; that they may seek{H8762)} thy name, O LORD.
Jer 15:17 : 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Titus 2:8 : 8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Jude 1:18 : 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 13:4 : 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:9 : 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Job 15:2-3 : 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

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