Job 19:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫גּ֤וּרוּ לָכֶ֨ם ׀ מִפְּנֵי־חֶ֗רֶב כִּֽי־חֵ֭מָה עֲוֺנ֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב לְמַ֖עַן תֵּדְע֣וּן שַׁדּֽוּן׃‬

Transliteration

gūrū lākem mippənê-ḥereb kî-ḥēmāh ʿăwōnôt ḥāreb ləmaʿan tēdəʿūn šaddūn

Grammar Details

• *gūrū*: qal imperative, masculine plural - fear/be afraid
• *lākem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - for yourselves
• *mippənê-ḥereb*: preposition + noun common masculine plural construct + noun common feminine singular - from before the sword
• *kî-ḥēmāh*: conjunction + noun common feminine singular - for wrath
• *ʿăwōnôt*: noun common masculine plural construct - punishments of iniquities of
• *ḥāreb*: noun common feminine singular - the sword
• *ləmaʿan*: conjunction - so that
• *tēdəʿūn*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + paragogic nun - you may know
• *šaddūn*: qal infinitive construct + paragogic nun - [there is] judgment

Word Meanings

• *gūr*: to fear/be afraid/dread
• *pānîm*: face/presence/before
• *ḥereb*: sword/cutting instrument
• *ḥēmāh*: wrath/heat/anger
• *ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment
• *yādaʿ*: to know/understand
• *šaddūn*: judgment/verdict (alternative reading: *šaddîn* - Almighty)

Referenced Verses

• Job 13:7-9 : 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
• Job 15:22 : 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
• Job 22:4 : 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
• Ps 1:5 : 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
• Ps 9:7 : 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
• Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The righteous shall rejoice{H8799)} when he seeth{H8804)} the vengeance: he shall wash{H8799)} his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say{H8799)}, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth{H8802)} in the earth.
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
• Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
• Rom 13:1-4 : 1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
• Jas 4:11-12 : 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?