Job 15:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כָּל־יְמֵי רָשָׁע הוּא מִתְחוֹלֵל וּמִסְפַּר שָׁנִים נִצְפְּנוּ לֶעָרִיץ

Transliteration

kol-yəmê rāšāʿ hûʾ mitḥôlēl û-mispar šānîm niṣpənû leʿārîṣ

Grammar Details

• *kol-yəmê*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine plural construct - all days of
• *rāšāʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - wicked man
• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *mitḥôlēl*: hithpolel participle, masculine singular - writhes/is in pain
• *û-mispar*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and number of
• *šānîm*: noun, feminine plural - years
• *niṣpənû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - are hidden/stored up
• *leʿārîṣ*: preposition + adjective, masculine singular - for the oppressor

Word Meanings

• *kōl*: all, every, whole
• *yôm*: day, time, period
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked, criminal, guilty
• *ḥîl*: to writhe, be in pain, travail
• *mispār*: number, count, few
• *šānāh*: year, age
• *ṣāp̄an*: to hide, treasure up, store
• *ʿārîṣ*: violent, terrifying, ruthless

Referenced Verses

• Job 24:1 : 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
• Job 27:13 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
• Ps 90:3-4 : 3 Thou turnest{H8686)} man to destruction; and sayest{H8799)}, Return{H8798)}, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past{H8799)}, and as a watch in the night.
• Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach{H8685)} us to number{H8800)} our days, that we may apply{H8686)} our hearts unto wisdom.
• Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
• Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
• Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
• Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.