Job 18:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־יוֹמוֹ נָשַׁמּוּ אַחֲרֹנִים וְקַדְמֹנִים אָחֲזוּ שָׂעַר

Transliteration

ʿal-yômô nāšammû ʾaḥărōnîm wəqaḏmōnîm ʾāḥăzû śāʿar

Grammar Details

• *ʿal-yômô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - at his day
• *nāšammû*: Niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are appalled
• *ʾaḥărōnîm*: adjective, masculine plural - those who come after
• *wəqaḏmōnîm*: conjunction + adjective, masculine plural - and those who are before
• *ʾāḥăzû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they seize
• *śāʿar*: noun, masculine singular - horror

Word Meanings

• *ʿal-yômô*: at his day/fate/doom
• *nāšammû*: they are appalled/astonished/horrified
• *ʾaḥărōnîm*: those who come after/who are west/later ones
• *wəqaḏmōnîm*: and those who are before/who are east/earlier ones
• *ʾāḥăzû śāʿar*: they seize horror/are horrified/shudder

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth{H8804)} that his day is coming{H8799)}.
• Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Ezek 21:25 : 25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
• Obad 1:11-15 : 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
• Luke 19:42 : 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
• Luke 19:44 : 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
• Deut 29:23-24 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
• 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
• Job 2:12-13 : 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
• Job 19:13-19 : 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
• Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
• Jer 18:16 : 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.