Job 20:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּֽגֶלֲלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

kĕ- gĕlălô lā-neṣaḥ yōʾbēd rōʾāyw yōʾmĕrû ʾayyô

Grammar Details

*kĕ-*: preposition - like/as
*gĕlălô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his dung/excrement
*lā-neṣaḥ*: preposition with definite article and noun, masculine singular - to the perpetuity/forever
*yōʾbēd*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he perishes
*rōʾāyw*: verb qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his seers/those seeing him
*yōʾmĕrû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will say
*ʾayyô*: interrogative particle with 3rd masculine singular suffix - where is he?

Word Meanings

*gĕlălô*: his dung/his excrement/his refuse
*neṣaḥ*: perpetuity/forever/completeness
*yōʾbēd*: perishes/is destroyed/is lost
*rōʾāyw*: those seeing him/his viewers/those who saw him
*ʾayyô*: where is he?/where has he gone?

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
2 Kgs 9:37 : 37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Ps 83:10 : 10 Which perished{H8738)} at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
Jer 8:2 : 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Job 4:20 : 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 7:10 : 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 8:18 : 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

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