Job 13:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵ֣ן יִ֭קְטְלֵנִי *לא **ל֣וֹ אֲיַחֵ֑ל אַךְ־דְּ֝רָכַ֗י אֶל־פָּנָ֥יו אוֹכִֽיחַ׃

Transliteration

hēn yiqṭelēnî lōʾ/lô ʾăyaḥēl ʾak-derākay ʾel-pānāyw ʾôkîaḥ

Grammar Details

• *hēn*: interjection - behold/indeed
• *yiqṭelēnî*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he will kill me
• *lōʾ*/*lô*: negative particle/preposition with 3rd person masculine suffix - not/for him
• *ʾăyaḥēl*: verb, Piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will hope/wait
• *ʾak*: restrictive particle - only/yet/nevertheless
• *derākay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my ways
• *ʾel*-*pānāyw*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to his face
• *ʾôkîaḥ*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will defend/justify

Word Meanings

• *lōʾ*/*lô* *ʾăyaḥēl*: I will not hope/I will hope in him (textual variant)
• *ʾak*: only/yet/nevertheless
• *derākay*: my ways/my conduct/my arguments
• *ʾôkîaḥ*: I will defend/I will justify/I will argue

Referenced Verses

• Job 27:5 : 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
• Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Job 23:4-7 : 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
• Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
• Job 13:18 : 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
• Job 16:17 : 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
• Job 16:21 : 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
• Job 40:8 : 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• Rom 8:38-39 : 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 John 3:20 : 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
• Job 40:2 : 2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
• Job 19:25-28 : 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
• Job 10:7 : 7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
• Job 40:4-5 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
• Job 31:31-37 : 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.