Job 22:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָבִ֣ים סֵֽתֶר־ל֭וֹ וְלֹ֣א יִרְאֶ֑ה וְח֥וּג שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃

Transliteration

ʿābîm sēter-lô wə-lōʾ yirʾê wə-ḥûg šāmayim yithallākh

Grammar Details

*ʿābîm*: noun, masculine plural - clouds
*sēter-lô*: noun, masculine singular + preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - covering for him
*wə-lōʾ yirʾê*: conjunction + negative particle + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he does not see
*wə-ḥûg*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and vault/circle of
*šāmayim*: noun, masculine plural - heavens
*yithallākh*: Hithpael imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he walks about

Word Meanings

*ʿābîm*: clouds/thick clouds
*sēter*: covering/hiding place/shelter
*yirʾê*: to see/perceive/look
*ḥûg*: circle/vault/horizon
*šāmayim*: heavens/sky
*yithallākh*: to walk about/to go to and fro/to walk habitually

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 139:11-12 : 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Luke 12:2-3 : 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Job 26:9 : 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Ps 33:14 : 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Ps 139:1-2 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

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